HMRC Paid £2.2M To Unions For Facility Time

The civil service paid more than £8.6m last year for trade union officials, with the payments for “facility time” at HMRC exceeding £2.2m.

In fact HMRC was the largest spending government department wrt "facility time.

Facility time – where trade union staff take agreed time off to act on behalf of their members.

Given the ongoing redundancies, staff bullying etc in HMRC it would appear to be money well spent eh?

Tax does have to be taxing.

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The Great PCS Diary Rip Off

What's wrong with the following advert for PCS diaries?

I will tell you after you have read it:

Order your 2016 PCS Diary today for £2

As the union faces financial pressures our national executive has taken the difficult decision to charge £2 - including VAT, postage and packing - for next year's diary from Collins-Debden which is due to be delivered in December.

To guarantee your 2016 copy place your order by 11 September.

If demand is very low it may not be viable to offer a 2016 diary, so place your order now.

The diary features extensive PCS information, including:

• Helpline numbers
• Contact addresses
• Supportive information
• Key dates.

We are hoping to agree with the printers that it will still be possible to order diaries after 11 September but there is not guarantee.

Order your diary now

Branches wanting to make bulk orders can call 0141 300 8544 or email: PCSdiary@collins-debden.couk

Worked out what is wrong with this yet?

I will tell you.

HMRC PCS union members pay PCS £6.40 per month to cover their membership of the union and to provide them with a FREE diary every year!

Tax does have to be taxing.

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FDA Predicts Job Losses

Dave Penman, general secretary of the FDA civil service union, has told the Mirror that he expects HMRC to lose between 10,000 and 15,000 of its 64,000 staff.


Tax does have to be taxing.

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RCTU Woos HMRC Staff

It seems that there is a new union offering HMRC staff an alternative to PCS. The R&C Trade Union (RCTU), formed earlier this year by former members of PCS, claims it can get a better deal for its members by talking with managers rather than striking.

PCS represents about 60,000 workers at HMRC, whilst (according to Lynden Melrose (senior officer at RCTU) RCTU has a membership "well into three figures".

RCTU says:

“To those who say the employer will not respond a national level and the only way is industrial action, we say it has not worked in the past and will not in the future and that means we go on the way we are.

The employer goes on and we remain bottom of all the organisations in the annual staff survey. That is not a victory; it is a damning statement that must change.”

AccountingWeb notes that RCTU needs ‘voluntary recognition’ from HMRC so it can negotiate collectively on behalf of its members. That would probably mean getting at least thousands of members.


Time will tell!

Tax does have to be taxing.

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