FDA union
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We're the trade union for managers and professionals in public service. Follow @FDAGenSec
Joined January 2013
- Here is Sir Philip Rutnam’s full statement in response to Sir Alex Allan’s findings on the Home Secretary’s conduct:
- "With every pronouncement and display like this, he demonstrates that he has no clue how the modern workplace operates and cares little about the effective delivery of vital public services." - @FDAGenSec
- “To stand at the despatch box and refuse to challenge a half-baked conspiracy theory about the civil service is the height of irresponsibility from a serving minister": @FDAGenSec's full response to Minister Steve Baker -
- Steve Baker's comments on civil servants "not only insult the dedicated professionals working in his department and across the civil service, but they epitomise the current state of affairs in government" - @FDAGenSec in BuzzFeed
- “To be honest, I think this practise needs to end” After Rishi Sunak repeated claims that Treasury analysis of Labour policies was ‘independent’, @FDAGenSec told @mrjamesob that parties of government shouldn’t use civil servants to cost opposition policies.
00:00 - "Alex Salmond is undermining the Scottish Government, he’s undermining the process that Nicola Sturgeon has introduced and he’s undermining the impartiality and integrity of the civil service - and as a former First Minister he absolutely knows what he’s doing." - @FDAGenSec
00:00 - The GCHQ trade unions flag from the original protest against a trade union ban, flown today in Cheltenham at the front of the 40th anniversary march.
- Here's @FDAGenSec's response to Jonathan Slater standing down as Permanent Secretary of the Department for Education in full:
- .@DavidGauke tells #FDAADC23 “I had the privilege of being a minister for 9 years and the challenges were immense. I’m grateful for civil servants who were hardworking, thoughtful, intelligent and motivated by the desire to serve the public and I want to say thank you.”
- The FDA has long called for precautionary exclusion of MPs to be considered at the point of arrest. It’s reassuring to see that the Committee on Standards agrees Read @jawadrazafda's full response 1/5
- “Fast Streamers carry out vital roles in ensuring the smooth functioning of govt…yet are so poorly paid they are skipping meals and relying on family just to get by” @Lauren_Crowley and @FDAGenSec on why we’ve launched a statutory ballot on industrial action in the Fast Stream:
- Read @DefraGovUK Permanent Secretary @ClareMoriarty's @WiLeadership_UK speech on "positioning yourself as a leader" and discover the importance of red shoelaces: fda.org.uk/home/Newsandme…
- Here's @FDAGenSec's response to the PM's letter urging permanent secretaries to get civil servants back to offices:











