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March 26th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services (pcs) union, which is Britain’s biggest civil service union, said the pcs will use its annual conference in May to examine a motion on “deepening” relations with Unite, Britain’s largest union.
“We will continue close working with Unite, extend it in to other parts of the union and explore the possibility of deepening our relationship,” Serwotka said.
The move, one step short of much speculated merger between the 280k-strong pcs and the 1.5m-strong Unite, will create a headache for the government as the two unions are leading a campaign of industrial action against the attack on their members’ terms and conditions.
Their closer cooperation is especially important, as it will bridge the traditional public and private sector divide in the war against the government’s massive austerity measures.
“There’s a motion from our executive about our closer working relationship with Unite and that will give us an indication about how to take it forward. It shows that the old view that unions come either from the private or public sector needs to be challenged,” Serwotka said.
He added a merger will not be in view for the near future, though he did not rule it out for the coming years.
“Where it goes depends on how it is seen to have gone on the ground and that is not a matter of weeks and months, that is a matter of some years,” he said.
The pcs has been the most outspoken among British unions about the pension reforms.
Last week Serwotka vowed to “take on” the government in a “nationally coordinated” campaign of “problems and headaches” for the government saying the campaign would be “the most significant action” that there has been in the public sector “for a long, long time.”
In that context, the union’s closer cooperation with Unite, which is to launch a national strike on Wednesday, could become a de facto “headache” for the government.
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