Mark Serwotka
Mark Serwotka is general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union
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Our pay freeze is actually a 20% pay cut against inflation. That's why the PCS union will join the mass strike on 10 July
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Mark Serwotka: Let's see Britain taking public services back from Serco and G4S – so they can be run properly
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Mark Serwotka: Twenty years on from Lawrence's murder, government plans to remove a key equality law would roll back years of progress
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Mark Serwotka: The human cost of George Osborne's austerity politics is too high. We need to invest in jobs and increase benefits
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Mark Serwotka: An unholy matrimony between finance and politics has undermined democracy: it's time it was reinforced
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Richard Murphy, Dominic Raab, Ann Pettifor, Gavin Kelly, Prateek Buch and Mark Serwotka: Our experts give their reaction to George Osborne's autumn statement
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Mark Serwotka: The Tories' ideological cuts will hit us all, not just public servants' jobs. Join the new coalition of the dispossessed to protest
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Unions concerned that savings are being made through cutting services and workers' pay and conditions instead of inefficiency
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Mark Serwotka: We must continue to reject the principle that those least culpable should pay the highest price to sustain a broken financial system
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Coalition's policy chief on public services reform believes excellence would be achieved through fear of losing jobs and real discipline
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Mark Serwotka: Hutton knows pensions are being cut not because they are unaffordable but because banks caused a public finance crisis
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Mark Serwotka We cannot have a pick 'n' mix approach to opposition to the cuts – our future is at stake
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Mark Serwotka: No public service cuts are needed. Our plan to deal with the deficit is all about jobs, revenue and growth
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Mark Serwotka: The barrage of cuts propaganda has disabled any critical thought – but my union has shown there is another way
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Response: It is right for our union to try to protect working conditions in the civil service, says Mark Serwotka
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Mark Serwotka: Despite Francis Maude's weasel words, the Tories would almost certainly have attacked civil service redundancy terms anyway
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Mark Serwotka: There is an alternative to slashing public services and unions must forge a united front to resist the political consensus
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Mark Serwotka: Cabinet Office cuts to civil servants' redundancy terms will have a devastating impact on the delivery of quality public services
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Mark Serwotka: Critics of the recent PCS strike have their numbers wrong – cuts pose a real threat to vulnerable, low-paid civil servants
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Mark Serwotka: We've seen the damage so-called 'efficiency' drives can cause. They are simply spending cuts that will result in job losses
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Mark Serwotka: David Freud's punitive reforms should never have been embraced by Labour: now he's gone, they should be dropped
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Mark Serwotka: The government wants to abolish income support but the adoption of Tory welfare policies offer no way forward in the fight against poverty
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Mark Serwotka: A new report celebrates how much money can be made from privatisation – but it's worth reflecting on what this means
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Mark Serwotka: It's no wonder that civil servants are going on strike. The government's failure to increase their pay adds insult to injury
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If you went on holiday this summer, it is doubtful you thought about the people who made it possible.
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Mark Serwotka and Steve Sinnott: The country is sending the message that public services should put people ahead of profits.
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Public services should not be run with the interests of business backers in mind, argues Mark Serwotka.
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Mark Serwotka: Britain's trade unions find themselves at a crossroads at their annual conference in Brighton this week.
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The resignation of the head of the Child Support Agency presents an opportunity to halt job cuts, and put things right, writes Mark Serwotka .
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Mark Serwotka: The government is undermining the delivery of public services by axeing 104,000 civil service jobs.
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Comment: Labour's plans to axe 104,000 civil service jobs are a slap in the face for hardworking public servants, says Mark Serwotka.
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Public services will suffer as a result of swingeing civil service job cuts announced in last week's budget, argues Mark Serwotka.
Topics
- Trade unions
- Public services policy
- Public sector cuts
- Mark Serwotka
- Public finance
- Public sector pay
- Public sector careers
- Economic policy
- Public sector pensions
- Civil service
- Labour
- Economics
- Privatisation
- Liberal-Conservative coalition
- Tax and spending
- Budget
- Unemployment and employment statistics
- Economic growth (GDP)
- Conservatives
- Pensions
Public servants, don't hold your breath on that pay rise with Nick Clegg