CPSA does YTS
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THE TUC backs YTS, despite Tebbit's decision to keep the allowance at £25 a week and to refuse union demands for £28.50.
The CPSA doesn't support it and is refusing to tolerate it in the Civil Service. CPSA conference saw it as a source of cheap temporary labour - youth exploitation rather than youth training.
Now the CPSA is working on a deal with the British Airports Authority to give 20 trainees a gross weekly wage not of $25, but of £42.93 plus full employee status.
This of course is still contrary Graham, OPSA General Secre. CPSA policy. Alistair tary says it is justifiable because it is so far in advance of any comparable deal.
But of course the Tories wouldn't be so reckless. That is not, in fact, what Serpell means.
Serpell means a steady rundown of rolling stock, depots and track, speed restrictions and loss of contracts because services can't be kept going, less passenger services because the coaches to carry them don't exist, lack of investment or