Public and Commercial Services Union

This checklist is for PCS members who wish to stand for election in the 2010 National Executive Committee (NEC) elections. You may wish to stand for one or more of these posts:-

• PCS President
• PCS Deputy or Vice President
• PCS National Executive Committee Member

See election regulations 5 and 6. There are a number of reservations and limitations which you may wish to check.

The attention of all candidates is drawn to election regulation 24 which prohibits unauthorised use of PCS membership name and address data.

Candidates Checklist

• You must get at least one valid nomination from a branch meeting held in accordance with rule 7.25. The nomination deadline is 5.00pm Thursday 4 March 2010, see election regulations 7 to 13.
• Candidates must accept in writing that they are willing to accept nomination. Please see election regulations 14 and 15.
• For these elections, you may submit an election address for each post you are standing for, election addresses must be sent electronically, please see election regulations 16 to 22.
• Any errors you make will be reproduced; please proof read your election address carefully.
• The word limit for your statement is 400, including any biographical information and election address. Please see election regulation 17.
• Numbers, initials and dates count as words. So “£2,000”, “PCS”, “2000” all count as one word.
• Hyphenated words count as one word - so “ex-CPSA” counts as one.
• With the exception of abbreviations, The PCS Balloting Office will convert text all in capital letters into normal upper and lower case.
• Any italics and underlining will be converted to bold text by the PCS Balloting Office.
• Candidates may provide a passport size photograph of themselves or a jpg taken in the last 12 for publication (in black and white). Please see election regulation 19.
• Remember that your photograph in the printed candidates’ booklet can only be as good as the one you submitted. A black and white photograph will often give a better result than a colour photograph.
• Common faults with booth pictures include: - flash glints on spectacles; poor contrast if the background is dark; shadows caused by off-centre positioning; out-of-focus because of movement or sitting too near the screen.