3.1 PUBLIC SERVICE CO-ORDINATING BARGAININIG COUNCIL The Labour Relations Act, establishes the Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC) as the bargaining council for the Public Service as a whole. It has the power to establish bargaining councils for any sector within the Public Service that it may so designate in terms of Section 37 of the Labour Relations Act. This is in response to section 27 of the Constitution, Act 108 of 1996, which confers upon citizens the right to fair labour practices, to organise and bargain collectively and gives workers the right to strike for the purposes of collective bargaining.