Coming soon the PCS NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTIONS 2017:
If your ballot paper goes to your home address please take this document home with you!
The purpose of this article is to advise members that the ballot papers for the PCS National Elections should be issued circa 20th April 2017, which means that very shortly you will be afforded the opportunity to elect the people who will represent PCS at the highest level within the union.
The National body deals with issues such as:
- National Pay Bargaining (campaigning for the restoration)
- The Civil Service Pensions Scheme
- The Cuts in Civil Service Jobs
As you can see from the above it is vitally important that the people we elect are prepared to advance members’ interests.
The Branch recommends (as agreed at the Annual General Meeting) that you participate in the elections and furthermore that you vote for the following candidates:
| President: | Janice Godrich | |||||
| Deputy/Vice Presidents (4): | Paula Brown | Zita Holbourne | ||||
| Fran Heathcote | Kevin McHugh | |||||
| National Executive Committee: | ||||||
| (General Constituency – 30) | Ian Albert | Sam Hall | Chris Morrison | |||
| Mark Baker | Austin Harvey | Marianne Owens | ||||
| Clive Bryant | John Jamieson | Clara Paillard | ||||
| Martin Cavanagh | Mark Leopard | Ian Pope | ||||
| Harvey Crane | Neil License | Alison Roder | ||||
| Alan Dennis | Marion Lloyd | Candy Udwin | ||||
| Lawrence Dunne | Dominic McFadden | Karen Watts | ||||
| Mary Ferguson | John McInally | Hector Wesley | ||||
| Angela Grant | John Maguire | Katrine Williams | ||||
| Jackie Green | Lorna Merry | Paul Williams | ||||
Under the leadership of the above candidates PCS has continued to grow in strength and reputation as a fighting, campaigning, and democratic union.
The recommended list below, whilst on the NEC has: –
- Prevented thousands of compulsory redundancies ;
- Forced a review of the hated performance management system;
- Protected 300 jobs in BIS, stopped privatisation of Land Registry – twice, and won major concessions through determined campaigning in DWP, HMRC and other areas;
- Defeated the vindictive attempt to smash our union through withdrawal of check-off and ensured the union’s financial stability.
- worked with other unions, campaign groups and the PCS Parliamentary Group to defend our welfare state, campaign for tax justice and many other issues.
The candidates are committed to promoting and alternative to Austerity and will continue to work with other unions, campaign groups and politicians who support our Alternative and step up the fight to build widest anti-austerity alliance in the trade union movement and wider society.
Their priorities continue to be to build maximum unity in action both within and across the union to defend jobs, conditions and services; continue to demand coordinated action across the public sector to defeat the pay freeze alongside campaigns at departmental levels; promote equality, oppose discrimination; defend members in the Commercial Sector; defend union democracy and improve services to branches and reps and build union strength in our workplaces.
If you want a strong union, please vote for the candidates above.
If your ballot paper goes to your home address, please take this document home with you.
If you require any further details please do not hesitate to contact Branch Office.
PCS Fylde 