It would be an honour and a privilege to be elected to the NEC as a Left Unity Candidate for the Commercial Sector. I started at ATOS in Blackpool in 2015. I have seen how a once proud National Savings Bank has been mismanaged by privatisation. A massive turnover of staff, over the top workloads and a lack of care for the employees and customers.  Agency workers are used and treated like second class citizens. I was one of these and was kept on an agency basis for 5 years, this shouldn’t be acceptable in any society. 

We can win bigger pay rewards and better conditions in the commercial sector, we can do this by bolstering our membership, boosting our trade union engagements and making sure we keep our union agreements in place.

Over recent years, I have become an active member of the PCS union. Becoming a representative of the Union has been a great eye opener into the structures and values of PCS. I am involved at a group level in my branch and I am a Left Unity member looking to support their candidates. 

The future of the union is important, at 27 I feel I can provide a voice for our younger members across PCS and my knowledge of the commercial sector will also help members who are on privatised contracts, whilst also looking out for our friends in the Civil Service. We need to continue to grow the union both in the civil service and within the private sector, especially in today’s climate where the Tory party seem hell bent on taking away our hard fought for trade union rights and agreements. As a socialist, I do not believe we can only rely on a Starmer led Labour Party, we have to be vocal, active and ready to take action when needed for our members. 

I will continue to campaign on the issues that are important to me and our members as we move towards an ever-growing gig economy. It is important members are heard as the shift towards working from home could make us less vocal and less effective. I will continue to fight in the private sector for better pay and conditions and for a future that treats all types of workers as equals.