[THE TORIES' mis-named £25-aweek "Youth Training Scheme" has…]
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THE TORIES' mis-named £25-aweek "Youth Training Scheme" has run into new trouble.
One place it won't be introduced is where the Government itself is the employer. Civil service unions have decided to boycott the scheme.
The biggest civil service union, CPSA: voted for a boycott a while back. But it looked as if there would be a majority on the Council of Civil Service Unions for co-operating - and with that excuse the CPSA's right-wing general secretary, Alastair Graham, went ahead to negotiate introduction of YTS.
The position was changed when the executive of the second largest union, the Society of Civil and Public Servants. voted on October 5 to boycott YTS. That ensured that there would be a majority against cooperation on the Council of Civil Service
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