Public and Commercial Services Union

Mark Serwotka, general secretary

Mark was first elected to the post of general secretary in December 2000. Mark was re-elected unopposed in 2005 for another five year term.

 A former clerical officer in the old DHSS, Mark is unique amongst his peers in other unions having come straight from the shop floor.

 Mark is a member of the TUC general council.

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Janice Godrich, president

Janice started work for the civil service in 1981 at Selly Oak unemployment benefit office in Birmingham. She moved to Paisley in Scotland in 1991.

She was elected in 2002 as the first woman president of PCS. Her first year as president was a "baptism of fire" as she had to defend the election of Mark Serwotka as general secretary against a legal challenge designed to overturn our members’ democratic decision. The challenge to Mark’s election was unsuccessful and since then PCS has grown rapidly - engaging members on campaigns to defend jobs and pensions and to improve pay and conditions.

Janice is a member of the TUC general council.

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Hugh Lanning, deputy general secretary

Hugh was elected deputy general secretary, in 2004 for five years. He has worked for the civil service trade union movement for 25 years, starting with the Civil Service Union and all the subsequent merged unions.

Over ten years as a senior full time officer - predominantly as assistant general secretary managing internal machinery of the union.

He represents PCS on the Council of Civil Service Unions with special responsibility for negotiations with the Cabinet Office on jobs, pensions and all personnel management issues.

He also covers equality, international, disputes and line manages the majority of bargaining units and regional centres

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Chris Baugh, assistant general secretary

Chris Baugh is the assistant general secretary of PCS. He has over 30 years of trade union experience in PCS and predecessor unions having served as national vice president and as a member of the national executive committee for many years.

Chris worked for the Land Registry from 1976 and was the lead negotiator and group president when he took up his elected AGS post in 2004. As a lifelong trade unionist and socialist and as member of Blackpool and Fylde trades council Chris has been involved over many years in a variety of community based campaigns.

As assistant general secretary, Chris is the union general treasurer and has responsibility for organising, trade union education, learning, membership and balloting, legal services and bargaining oversight for Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the culture sector. Chris also leads on the PCS green agenda, an alternative vision for civil and public services and promoting union involvement in arts/ music/ cultural events.