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By Dave Warren (Swansea Socialist Party and Secretary of the PCS Associate and Retired Members Section in Wales) Pickets at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) were in determined mood when Socialist Party members visited their picket line on Friday 16th June. Workers engaged in despatching driving licences and vehicle registration documents to the public had been on strike ...

By Dave Warren Swansea Socialist Party The industrial action over workplace safety at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has now entered its fifth month. The PCS union has operated a strategy based on targeted action, bringing out groups of workers at different times and paying them strike pay of £40 a day. Currently, members in the Drivers Medical ...

By Dave Warren, PCS Member and retired DVLA branch secretary The dispute at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) over Covid safety is now in its third month. The dispute is unusual, in that the leadership of PCS, the union representing the workers, is taking direct responsibility, with regular Zoom meetings for members chaired by the President Fran Heathcote ...

By Dave Warren former DVLA PCS secretary The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) branch of PCS has voted for industrial action against management’s failure to provide a safe working environment. During the first lockdown only 250 essential staff out of the 5,000 strong workforce was required to physically go into the workplace, but since September over 2,000 workers have ...

Workers are forced to spend hours working within a metre of other workers, but can be fined if they protest at these conditions!