About our Dispute

We’re all members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) who are working for a company called “MyCSP Ltd”, which itself is primarily owned by “Equiniti Group”. We administer the pensions of around one and a half million members of the Civil Service Pension Scheme.

When we first transferred into MyCSP from the Civil Service, we had ‘trade union recognition’, which meant that PCS could negotiate on our behalf both as individuals and as a workforce as a whole.

Despite our union rights transferring to our employment by MyCSP under the ‘TUPE Regulations’, MyCSP have refused to recognise the union as representing us collectively. TUPE is supposed to protect the rights of staff transferring from one company to another, when work changes hands.

MyCSP has now lost the contract for administering the Pension Scheme and the work is being transferred to another private company, “Capita Plc”. Once again TUPE talks have begun, but MyCSP have refused to allow our trade union to be fully involved in the negotiations – even though these talks will determine our terms and conditions of service under the new employer.

When all reasonable attempts to persuade MyCSP to allow us to be represented by our independent trade union failed, we were forced to ballot for industrial action. We were balloted by our union and following the majority of members voting for action, we began a six-week strike, with the aim of our union being able to represent us collectively.

Remember; this isn’t a strike about increasing our pay; it’s a strike about protecting our terms and conditions with the new employer and defending our trade union rights.