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Yesterday Fujitsu Services, which provides IT services to both public and private organizations announced it will cut 1200 jobs or 10% of the workforce in the UK and Ireland. This happened despite the firm imposed a pay freeze earlier this year and threatened to close the Benefit Pension Scheme.



UNI affiliate the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) which represents 750 workers in Fujitsu vowed to campaign against compulsory redundancies and for high quality, sustainable public services.

Its general secretary mark Serwotka said: “This is a huge blow to people who provide support to essential public services, including driving licenses, taxes and defence. We stand to lose not just jobs, but essential expertise in the operation of the IT systems that support services to the British public. Services to the hard-working taxpayer are bound to suffer as highly skilled IT professionals are thrown on to the dole queue."

Today’s announced redundancies are another sad effect of the crisis following other high profile cost cutting initiatives in multinationals including IBM, Capgemini and HP/EDS and are firmly condemned by UNI global union.