Just days before the World Cup, Fabio Capello has decided to change his entire squad and bring in a host of new, untried players in. He has been quoted as saying it doesn't really matter which English players he picks and that he believes it is a good time for a change.
Obviously that isn't true. It would be madness for anyone to do something so foolish before the biggest challenge of all. But PCS members in DWP could be in danger of doing something similar.
For members in DWP, the re-run GEC election is possibly the most important election we will be involved in this year. In the General Election, many of us lived in constituencies where it hardly mattered if we decided to vote. But in this election every single vote will matter.
Over the last six years this GEC, led by Jane Aitchison, has done everything possible to protect the jobs, rights and pensions of every member of staff in the Department. But now we all face our biggest challenge. We face a government committed to making savage cuts to the public sector because of ideological reasons, not economic necessity.
If we vote in a weak, untried, divisive GEC then we are voting for redundancies. It is that simple. But failure to vote at all could allow that to happen. Don't waste your vote and vote for those listed below:
PRESIDENT Jane Aitchison
GROUP EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Dave Alston, Alison Carass, Jason Ferraby, Helen Flanagan, Jimmy Gill, Janice Godrich, Sharon Green, Gavin Hartley, Martin Jones, Adam Khalif, Marie McDonough, Dave Owens, Ian Pope, Carol Revell, Sarah Robinson, Sian Ruddock, Lesley Salt, Jagdeep Sandhu, Nigel Sheahan, Derek Thomson, Steve West
