Mark Serwotka

A shameful way to conduct industrial relations, by Mark Serwotka

Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude’s announcement that civil service redundancy pay would be capped at a level lower even than the rest of the public sector, represents an attack on not just civil servants, but all public sector workers. Read more...

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Get real on redundancy pay, by Mark Serwotka

As the government struggles to come to terms with the scale of the national deficit, one thing is clear: there is a consensus among the major political parties that the public sector and its workforce should pay the price. And yet, the debt was not run-up by public sector mismanagement, but by the corruption of the banking sector, which collapsed due to its own greed, deceit and the failure of government to regulate. Read more...

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