
Geoff Fletcher
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For the President of the United States to be making baseless, prejudiced, comments about dedicated air traffic professionals at this time is utterly deplorable. We at Prospect Union send our solidarity to ATC colleagues in the USA and everyone affected by this tragedy.

"Any reorganisation must not jeopardise the essential expertise and specialist skills contained within arm’s length bodies, and must make it easier to recruit and retain the specialists the civil service needs" - Mike Clancy


Cuts to admin budgets sound like an easy win to save money while protecting frontline services. But unfortunately that is not how the public accounts work – administration covers absolutely essential functions." More from Mike Clancy in The Guardian 📰 theguardian.com/politics/2025/…


Prospect General Secretary calls on the government to work closely with unions on relocation plans and on the wider civil service reform agenda in BBC News (UK) following news that 12,000 jobs are to be moved out of London. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Read our response to the Pay Remit Guidance for the Civil Service from ProspectSteveThomas 💬



“By refusing to address the long term and systemic issues within civil service pay, they are compounding the challenge of recruiting and retaining the talent needed to deliver the government’s own agenda." Lauren Crowley in Civil Service World civilserviceworld.com/professions/ar…

Today our General Secretary Mike Clancy attended a Trades Union Congress meeting with the Chancellor. He emphasised that the Industrial Strategy must be delivered in partnership with unions so that it benefits people through high quality employment, unionised workplaces, and fair treatment.


The Spending Review represents a key moment for this Labour Government in describing how they plan to run the country after a turbulent first year in office, writes Mike Clancy in his latest blog. Read it here: prospect.org.uk/news/spending-…

Behind the statistics about missed targets are cases of real civil servants who have suffered financial detriment because of delayed payments or who have had to delay their retirement due to missing or incorrect information -response to National Audit Office report prospect.org.uk/news/prospect-…

Great to be joined by Cabinet Office Minister Georgia Gould at our Public Service Sector Conference. Georgia addressed conference and took questions from delegates, she thanked Prospect members for the technical expertise they bring which is key to the government's missions.


A fascinating speech setting out many productive and agile state ideas followed by a lengthy and set of Q and As with delegates. You can definitely come again Georgia Gould - many thanks for your engagement


2/ We’ve already been collaborating with the Cabinet Office to develop guidance and policies in line with the Charter’s principles, helping to ensure real, lasting change.ProspectSteveThomas Geoff Fletcher


