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From: The Socialist issue 1130, 21 April 2021: Build a socialist alternative

Search site for keywords: PCS - DWP - HMRC - Candidates - Marion Lloyd - Civil Service

PCS leadership ballot underway

PCS BEIS picket line, July 2019, photo Paula Mitchell (Click to enlarge)

Katrine Williams, Vice-president PCS DWP group (personal capacity)

The ballot for PCS president and national executive committee opens on 22 April and runs to 13 May. PCS is the union for government workers in the civil service and public and private sectors.

The PCS left rank-and-file group, the Broad Left Network, is standing Socialist Party member Marion Lloyd for president and candidates for vice-presidents and the national executive committee.

Marion Lloyd has received 42 branch nominations. She is currently BEIS (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) group president and on the union's national executive committee. Marion's nominations put her in the strongest position to defeat the current president, Fran Heathcote.

Marion told the Socialist she believes: "The current leadership is out of touch and doesn't understand, let alone tackle, the day-to-day issues we all face at work." She urged PCS members to vote for her and the other Broad Left Network candidates in these elections.

The Broad Left Network was formed by socialists in response to the need to challenge and replace the current failed union leadership. The key issues it is standing candidates on include:

A national campaign for a safe working environment. Address mental health, stress and wellbeing as a priority. We won't pay for the Covid-19 crisis
Stop the pay freeze. For a 10% pay rise. A national campaign on pay and pensions
End privatisation, bring services back in-house
Protect and improve lay democracy
Protect the future of our union with campaigns that can recruit, organise, build and win improvements, not by mergers and restructures
Fight the Tory attacks on our right to protest, strike and picket
A strong political voice - PCS should support candidates who back us
Socialist Party members in PCS call upon activists and members to vote for the Broad Left Network candidates below.
For a democratic union and a fighting leadership.

BROAD LEFT NETWORK CANDIDATES

PRESIDENT: MARION LLOYD (BEIS)
VICE PRESIDENTS: FIONA BRITTLE (SCOT GOV), SARAH BROWN (MET POLICE), DAVE SEMPLE (DWP), JON-PAUL ROSSER (HMRC)
NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:

DAVE BARTLETT (MOJ), REBECCA BORLAND (HOME OFFICE), ANDI BRIDGES (HMRC), FIONA BRITTLE (SCOT GOV), ALEX BROWN (HEALTH), SARAH BROWN (MET POLICE), JAIME DAVIES (HMRC), KEVIN DENMAN (MET POLICE), ALAN DENNIS (DSG), NICK DOYLE (HMRC), GILL FOXTON (DfE), SUE FRANCIS (BEIS), PAUL GUINNANE (DFE), RACHEL HEEMSKERK (DWP), MARION LLOYD (BEIS), TOM LOWRY (DWP), RACHELLE MCDOUGALL (HMRC), NICK PARKER (BEIS), DAVE REES (DWP), ROB RITCHIE (MET POLICE), JON-PAUL ROSSER (HMRC), DAVE SEMPLE (DWP), PAUL SUTER (DWP), SAORSA-AMATHEIA TWEEDALE (DWP), KATRINE WILLIAMS (DWP), CRAIG WORSWICK (DWP), COLIN YOUNG (DFE), BOBBY YOUNG (HMRC)

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Finance appeal

The coronavirus crisis has laid bare the class character of society in numerous ways. It is making clear to many that it is the working class that keeps society running, not the CEOs of major corporations.

The results of austerity have been graphically demonstrated as public services strain to cope with the crisis.

The government has now ripped up its 'austerity' mantra and turned to policies that not long ago were denounced as socialist. But after the corona crisis, it will try to make the working class pay for it, by trying to claw back what has been given.

The Socialist Party's material is more vital than ever, so we can continue to report from workers who are fighting for better health and safety measures, against layoffs, for adequate staffing levels, etc.
When the health crisis subsides, we must be ready for the stormy events ahead and the need to arm workers' movements with a socialist programme - one which puts the health and needs of humanity before the profits of a few.