UC staff to strike?

http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/news_and_events/pcs_comment/pcs_comment.cfm/pcs-in-universal-credit-strike-ballot

I cannot believe it!

All the happy people we keep being told about who love UC so much!???

Complaints include ‘excessive pressure to meet targets, poor IT, inadequate training and exceptionally high levels of stress…new recruits are only being offered temporary contracts.’

‘A PCS survey earlier this year showed that it is clear that there are serious problems in the UC service centres which management needs to address these as a priority rather than continuing to expand UC into other areas.’

Well I never.

More likely the union have seen the future.

https://dwpdigital.blog.gov.uk/2015/03/18/dwp-2020-vision-andrew-besford/

https://dwpdigital.blog.gov.uk/2015/02/02/introducing-enablers-dwp-business-design/

Self Service and Automation = less dues.

UC staff in Glasgow and Bolton have voted for a two-day strike over ‘inadequate’ IT systems and an ‘increasingly oppressive working environment’

http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/applications/universal-credit-staff-vote-strike-over-inadequate-it-systems-3618788/

PCS reports that 1,500 of its members working on universal credit will strike on Monday 20 and Tuesday 21 July at the two original service centres in Bolton and Glasgow ‘over increasingly oppressive working conditions’ -

http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/news_and_events/pcs_comment/pcs_comment.cfm/strikes-to-hit-flagship-government-scheme

But, but, wasn’t it all supposed to be “on time, on budget” and all going swimmingly well?

If UC fails, it is all the fault of the strikers. Everything was hunky-dory prior to the strike. QED.

it’s all fine ... almost 150,000 people have claimed it in 2+ years according to today’s new figures

If only govt. had introduced the new (anti) strike law in time (says former CPSA branch chair).