The branch nomination period for the upcoming elections for General Secretary (GS) and Assistant General Secretary (AGS) of PCS, the largest civil service trade union, ended on 16 October. Voting will be 9 November to 14 December. Predictably, there are two sets of candidates: Fran Heathcote and Paul O’Connor, of the ruling Left Unity (LU) group, and Marion Lloyd and John Moloney, standing on a Broad Left Network and Independent Left ticket. There is a great deal at stake.
Nominations for the General Secretary and Assistant General Secretary of the PCS civil service union closed on 16 October, and voting is 9 November to 14 December. Solidarity calls on readers to vote for Marion Lloyd and John Moloney. They are standing for a democratic fighting union and for rebuilding the national pay campaign, de facto trashed by the incumbent Left Unity faction. If elected they will take no more than their civil service workers’ pay, and return the rest of the bloated official salary to the union, as John Moloney already does.
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