Two day protest held by Public and Commercial Services Union over loss of 1,500 jobs.
PressTV reports that IT workers from the British government have undergone a two-day strike in protest of the 1,500 job cuts planned by HP, with the OEM said to be a key IT service provider to the government, particularly the Department of Work and Pensions.
The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union called the strike as it accused HP of “not respecting the terms of a mutual agreement in 2011” to avoid compulsory redundancies “while refusing to engage meaningfully with the union”, with a number of staff receiving redundancy notices despite the agreement.
According to the article, HP has contracts with the British Defence and Justice Departments and the Department for Work and Pensions. Mark Serwotka, General Secretary of PCS, commented: “Hewlett Packard makes huge profits from the work our members do for some key government departments. The very least that staff deserve is job security and we are calling on HP to withdraw the threat of compulsory redundancies immediately.”