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Fuel

The probiem of leade ip can be traced back to e root cause - the comete failure of the Counof Civil Service Unions UCSU) to achieve even ninimal political underinding of their Tory ponents.

This was apparent right im the outset, when the lapping of the Pay Rearch Unit was presentOn the surface one strength in the union leadership's approach was to arrange an unprecedented unity between the nine civil service unions on the pay campaign. This was desirable for obvious reasons, but it soon became clear that the bureaucrats had created a fetish of unity, and that the problems inherent in maintaining unity with management associations and ultramoderate groupings were being ignored.

So when the IPCS insisted that members should be given the option of voting to continue selective strikes in the consultation process on an all-out strike, the CDCSO went along with them, for the sake of unity, ironically producing waves of confusion and disillusion in the rank and file.