HUNDREDS of universal credit staff will launch a two-day strike on Tueday in a row over workloads and staffing levels.
More than 200 workers at the Universal Credit Service Centre in Stockport are expected to walk out, in the latest blow to Amber Rudd’s miserly Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
Civil Service union PCS wants more than 100 staff recruited to deal with increasing workloads, an end to staff cuts and no more victimisation of union reps.
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
A new report from the Citizens Advice destroys the government narrative about disabled people ‘choosing’ not to work, showing the £3,000 annual cuts will create a two-tiered system based on claim dates rather than needs, writes DYLAN MURPHY
