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Mark Serwotka - forGeneral Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the trade union for British civil servants.
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Mark Serwotka: Tax workers take action over jobs
Tax workers have launched a fresh wave of industrial action in a long-running dispute over job losses and privatisation. Members of the Public and Commercial Services union started weeks of action short of a strike, which will include a work to rule, in protest at Revenue and Customs job cuts. The union is also planning strike action in September as part of a campaign against cuts and plans to privatise parts of the service. General secretary Mark Serwotka said: "While millionaires in the cabinet wring their hands about the morality of tax avoidance, they are ploughing ahead with ...
Mark Serwotka: Jobcentre staff set for strike
Thousands of Jobcentre staff are due to go on strike in a long-running row over "oppressive working conditions and unrealistic targets". They claim that "draconian" conditions are preventing them from providing a decent service. PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: "With unemployment remaining high and our economy in the grip of recession, it is shameful that Jobcentre bosses are still refusing to let their staff provide the kind of help and advice that people need. Read more: Belfast Telegraph (13 August 2012)
Serwotka sellout sets seal on Olympic exploitation
Adam Ford on the PCS' aborted strike action, and the unions' Olympic failures. As women footballers were getting ready to unofficially kick off the London Olympics, the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union general secretary was preparing to bow to ruling class pressure, and call off a strike of workers in the Border Agency, Criminal Records Bureau, and the Identity and Passport Service. In doing so, darling of the fake left Mark Serwotka was setting the seal on years of collaboration between union officialdom and the London Olympics authorities. The aborted strike was originally ...
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10 steps to kickstart the UK economy | Mark Serwotka The human cost of George Osborne's austerity politics is too high. We need to invest in jobs and increase benefitsThe loss of the UK's triple-A rating, an economy teetering on the brink of a triple-dip recession and a deficit growing rather than shrinking – the news is not good for George Osborne just two weeks before his budget statement.But before I risk evoking sympathy for the chancellor, it's worth remembering that the human cost of his failing austerity policies is not merely reputational but material for millions of people. Increasing numbers of people are finding it impossible to make ends meet – with over 6 million unemployed or underemployed, hundreds of thousands dependent on food banks, and child poverty rising again.So here is a 10-point plan to boost the economy in the public interest, in place of the government's failing approach:1. Break the pay freeze Pay across all sectors has risen below inflation in the last four years – taking £50bn out of workers' pockets. |
Tax workersapos union supports UK Uncut legal fight UK Uncut Legal Actionaposs high court challenge to the deal struck between HM Revenue Customs and Goldman Sachs is an important part of the campaign against tax dodging |
Queenaposs speech scapegoating migrants and increasing pension age Commenting on the Queenaposs Speech Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotka said |
Forget Europe – the markets hold the real unaccountable power | Mark Serwotka An unholy matrimony between finance and politics has undermined democracy: it's time it was reinforcedListening to economics being discussed in the media is like being read a fairy story. In any fairy story you need a monster, and in this case it's "the markets": unseen, but seemingly all-powerful. Job losses, public service cuts, wage freezes, privatisation, even cuts to benefits for disabled people can be justified by saying "the markets" demand it.But what are the markets? Who comprises them and why are they so powerful? I didn't vote for them and I doubt you did either – yet they apparently have the power to dictate policies to elected governments and, in the case of Italy, to even select the government.This is not an abstract debate. If we are to understand the economic system we live under, what went wrong to cause the crash, and how we are to change it, we need to deal with facts, not myths. At the height of the crash the curtain was pulled back, Wizard of Oz-like, to reveal t |
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