Mark Serwotka
Mark Serwotka is general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union
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Civil servants to join public sector strike for higher wages
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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The tide must continue to turn against the likes of SercoMark Serwotka: Let's see Britain taking public services back from Serco and G4S – so they can be run properly
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Tory equality policy is a sick tribute to the memory of Stephen LawrenceMark 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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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 benefits
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Forget Europe – the markets hold the real unaccountable powerMark Serwotka: An unholy matrimony between finance and politics has undermined democracy: it's time it was reinforced
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Autumn statement 2012: expert verdict
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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Slashing and privatising public services: David Cameron's 'aspiration nation'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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Government outsourced more than 1,100 jobs to private sector in 2011
Unions concerned that savings are being made through cutting services and workers' pay and conditions instead of inefficiency
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2012: a chance to fight and win on public sector pensionsMark 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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Public sector workers need 'discipline and fear', says Oliver Letwin
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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Lord Hutton has made scapegoats of public sector workersMark Serwotka: Hutton knows pensions are being cut not because they are unaffordable but because banks caused a public finance crisis
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There is an alternative to public spending cutsMark Serwotka: The barrage of cuts propaganda has disabled any critical thought – but my union has shown there is another way
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Our PCS strike was no mistake
Mark Serwotka: Critics of the recent PCS strike have their numbers wrong – cuts pose a real threat to vulnerable, low-paid civil servants
Public servants, don't hold your breath on that pay rise with Nick Clegg