TUC: GCHQ ends 15 years absence

TUC: GCHQ ends 15 years absence

CAROLINE CORNELL yesterday became the first government communication headquarters (GCHQ) delegate at the TUC conference for 15 years. She told delegates: "It has finally been recognised that staff at GCHQ have no conflict of loyalties. We can do a sensitive job on behalf of this country and still be active members of a national trade union. Individual employment rights ... have now been restored." Unions were banned from the Cheltenham centre after the then Tory government alleged intelligence work had been disrupted by industrial action.