Under-threat workers to lobby MPs today


by Newswire    
10:00 am - February 9th 2011

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Hundreds of staff from under-threat government agencies are expected to descend on Westminster today to put pressure on their MPs over the government plan to cut so called ‘quangos’.

Members of the Public and Commercial Services union will join colleagues from other public sector unions at a rally that will be addressed by PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka.

They will then lobby their MPs to highlight the important work they do and how the government’s plan to abolish, merge, privatise or drastically alter scores of non-departmental public bodies will make the agencies less effective and less accountable.

Last month the Commons public administration select committee criticised the public bodies bill – which is currently going through parliament and includes the proposal to sell-off publicly owned forests – saying it was being rushed through and that the plan would neither save money nor improve accountability.

There will be a photo opportunity at the protest tomorrow at 12.30pm on Old Palace Yard opposite the House of Lords.

From a press release

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