PCS members at the Shared Service Centres in Newport and Merseyside will be taking part in a one day stoppage on Monday 30 June following the announcement that the MoJ Board has taken a decision to transfer their jobs to the private sector 'framework' providers French company Steria-SSCL.
This company (25% government-owned) has already taken on Shared Services in DWP and Defra last November – by March they had announced the redundancy of half of the 1,000 workforce and the off-shoring of the work to India.
PCS tells Napo that the MoJ could have kept the work in-house; but no accountable business case has been made public to evidence what savings can be made to the taxpayer through this outsourcing option.
MoJ could have given the contract to the German Arvato company – PCS was assured by the department that the Arvato ‘framework’ did not include an option to off-shore work from the UK. But once again, the MoJ has shown zero regard for the welfare of its employees. It has chosen the worst option.
Support of users
Napo and POA have pledged their support to the PCS campaign, as have PCS Home Office Group and NOMS PCS National Branch. Napo will publicise the PCS campaign initiatives and we urge all Napo members to protest about this threat to the security and integrity of your personal data.
What Napo members can do:
- Please sign the new 38 Degrees Petition here
- Please write to your MP using the simple e-action here – it only takes 30 seconds!
- Send messages of support to colleagues in Bootle and Newport for Monday and afterwards by emailing the two branches at pcsmojsharedservices@gmail.com and PCSMOJPayrollServices@gmail.com
Ian Lawrence, Napo General Secretary, has had discussions with senior PCS Officials this week to explore how the two unions can seek to coordinate campaign activities in the coming months and more news will feature in our own campaign updates