Make Your Vote Count

Just a reminder that it is election day on the 4th of June... just two days before the anniversary of the D-Day landings, when men of many nations and all races joined together to strike a decisive blow against nazism.

Let us not forget their sacrifice.

Vote on June 4th, for hope, not hate.

SPVA Branch Structures

This diagram shows the structure of the PCS in SPVA and the relationships of the branch's to the GEC and NEC. Click on the image for a clearer view.

Blackmail fear as data lost by EDS from Imjin...

...despite at the time dismissed as routine clerical and pay data seems to have included sensitive details of drug abuse, extra marital affairs and the visits to prostitutes of RAF personnel.

Yet again the wisdom of placing sensitive data in private hands for private profit is called into question.

But will EDS have the size of their cake reduced or face any penalty at all for their routine negligence? Well, given that their partners, our employers in the MoD kept stum about the true contents of the data until a successful FOI request revealed it today, it is highly doubtful!
BBC News
Check out Andy Boylan's (Veterans Agency National Branch) speech to conference on motion A14 that refers:
Veterans Agency National Branch blog

The Robbing of Britain Sustained...

Royal Bank of Scotland is under fire over new bonus schemes for its chief executive, Stephen Hester, amid yet further 'concern' about the performance criteria attached to multimillion-pound awards by a bank 70% owned by the taxpayer.

The latest theft of public money follows the award of shares worth £5m to four RBS bankers last week. The largest award was to Ellen Alemany, who runs the bank's US business and was given almost 6m shares, worth £2.4m based on Friday's closing price of 41p. Three other bankers had awards of about 1.8m shares each, worth about £750,000 at current share prices.

The shares were awarded during an ongoing review of the pay structure for Hester, parachuted in as chief executive when Sir Fred Goodwin was ousted last year. Goodwin's pension of £700,000 a year continues to cause controversy.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/may/24/rbs-banking-bonus-scheme-criticism"

SPVA delegate addresses conference

Andy Boylan of Veterans Agency National Branch moves a motion at the annual delegate conference 2009. The photograph is taken from the perspective of an MoD delegate... at the front of conference this year.








http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/news_and_events/conference/reports/thursday-afternoon.cfm

Mark Serwotka addresses the opening of 2009 ADC

http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/news_and_events/conference/reports/

MoD Group Conference 2009

Mark Serwotka addresses the MoD Group Conference.

SPVA Unity begins.

At the PCS Annual Delegate Conference 2009 in Brighton, the SPVA branches meet together for the first time and agree to join together and establish an SPVA blog to share unity of purpose of their respective branches and to act as a communication hub for members and branch officers. Ian Melvin of VA branch volunteered to set up a blogger page for the purpose and to maintain it into the future...