PCS: reasons for voting no
The ballot on whether to call off the [civil service pay] dispute starts very soon [3-31 August, on the government offer of flat-rate payments to compensate for past cost-of-living issues and 4.5% for the next year]. Now you might say that’s not true as the [PCS union] leadership claim we are moving to a new phase, just pausing the dispute and not calling it off; that later this year, we will evaluate the outcome of the pay settlements and then decide whether to begin action again. Let’s pick that claim apart.