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‘PCS has changed, root and branch’
It’s PCS leader MARK SERWOTKA’s last TUC, and, he tells Ben Chacko, he leaves a union that’s engaged, militant and winning disputes
General secretary of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union, Mark Serwotka
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MARK SERWOTKA is attending his last TUC Congress as leader of the Civil Service union PCS after 23 years at the helm.
The union has been in the thick of the industrial struggle over the last year, bringing workers out on strike across multiple government departments. Is it a very different union from the one he won the leadership of back in 2000?
“PCS has changed root and branch. I’ve been 44 years in work, and for the first 20 I was an activist in the former union. Then it was run by an incredibly right-wing clique. It never implemented conference decisions, activists were sacked, victimised… when a merger formed PCS the ruling groups expected to create a big, right of centre Civil Service union.
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