PCS is in crisis.

At ADC in May, after years of insultingly low pay rises for members and complete inaction from our national union, delegates voted overwhelmingly to change things. You voted to launch a real, fighting national campaign, including mobilising our industrial strength and moving to a ballot by September; if the Government does not move sufficiently towards our demands.

You also voted, despite opposition from the outgoing National Executive Committee, to resist all attacks against the trans community and to empower lay reps with greater tools to organise in their workplaces.

This followed the victory of the Coalition for Change in the recent NEC elections – including the election of Bev Laidlaw of the Independent Left to the Presidency.

The new NEC has a clear platform and mandate: to deliver a serious national campaign and to mobilise our union to fight.

The General Secretary, who negotiated the latest pitiful civil service pay increase, is opposed to this platform. And so when the NEC met on June 11th to begin its work, she unconstitutionally instructed union staff members to shut down the meeting – justified with spurious legalese that the NEC rejects. She then used union comms, to which the NEC does not have access, to broadcast her factional and misleading account of events.

If the NEC is not able to function, then members’ national campaign will fail. But not just that – the entire democracy of our union is at stake.

Join us on Thursday 25th June, at 7pm via Zoom – where we will discuss what is happening and how members can take back control of their union.

Register for the meeting here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/qtdYI3PEQQSIiy1vEVjRRw