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Civil Service wages are appallingly low, with our members’ pay unable to keep pace with even just the basics, warns FRAN HEATHCOTE
Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) on the picket. March 2018

THE STUC meets at what is a pivotal moment for our movement and our class.

In a general election year, as we witness the death throes of a failing Conservative government, operating a scorched-earth policy, while simultaneously still trying to hang on to power, we need bold and radical ideas now more than ever, and it is so important that we work with as much solidarity as we can muster to build a vision of a real alternative. An alternative that millions of ordinary people are crying out for.

Fourteen years of austerity, a global pandemic and a catastrophic cost-of-living crisis have all had a crippling impact on the working class and they’ve exposed a fundamentally flawed economic model.

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