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Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham rallied the crowds at this year’s Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, getting huge cheers as she welcomed people to the event saying, “This is the first time in 14 years that Tolpuddle has met without the cloud of the Tories hanging over us.” Sharon said: “Friends, as we gather here today in […]
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Unite general secretary Sharon Graham gave an inspiring speech to a packed crowd for the 40th anniversary of the miners’ strike, which was held at the historic council chamber of the Yorkshire Area of the National Union of Mineworkers in Barnsley on Saturday (March 9). You can watch her full speech in the video below:
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On International Women’s Day, Unite Equalities is gearing up for a special IWD online event tomorrow (March 9) that is open to all – you can find out more about how you can attend here. Below is a special IWD message from Unite general secretary Sharon Graham ahead of tomorrow’s event. — Whether it is […]
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Responding to today’s (March 6) budget, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said, “Once again the budget offers nothing but the same old failed choices and phony fiscal rules. The real issue is the crisis of under-investment in our industries and public services. We have a multi-billion investment gap, leaving the UK lagging far behind comparable […]
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Striking DHL Aviation workers at East Midlands Airport stood defiant on the picket line on Wednesday (February 28) as they were joined by their general secretary Sharon Graham. The Unite members are now fighting a massive real-terms pay cut by their employer DHL Aviation, which Unite research has shown has made record-breaking profits. You can […]
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Unite mobilised one of its biggest steel demos ever in Port Talbot on Saturday (February 17). Unite general secretary Sharon Graham gave an impassioned speech at the rally, which you can watch in full in the video below: If you’ve missed our earlier coverage of the Port Talbot demo, you can read a full news […]
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“We can fight. And yes, we can win!” These were the rousing words of Unite general secretary, Sharon Graham yesterday, February 17, as she addressed the hundreds-strong Port Talbot steel community who’d come to listen, as she spoke out on the closure of the blast furnaces.
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This year will be another defined by the political choices we make. With the severity of our predicament becoming ever clearer, the only difference will be the importance of the decisions being taken. If Britain were a hospital patient most doctors would mark us down as being in a “bad way”, our recovery touch and […]
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Trade unions are once again under Tory attack from this government. One in five workers is losing their right to strike. Repressive minimum service levels (MSLs) are being imposed to force unions to ‘police’ their own strikes and even cross picket lines.
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As the TUC meets to plan its response tomorrow (December 8) my message is clear: don’t back down, strikes are a vital part of how we improve pay and conditions.
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Calling it an ‘abject failure for workers’, a ‘missed golden opportunity to tackle the issues threatening jobs and livelihoods,’ and ‘leaving consumers at the sharp end of the economy’, you could tell that Unite was left far from impressed by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement, delivered this afternoon (November 22).
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Unite general secretary Sharon Graham on Friday (November 10) stood shoulder to shoulder with striking Go North East members who are fighting for fair pay. They are now in their second week of all-out continuous strike action. You can watch Sharon Graham’s speech on the picket line in the video below – and you can […]
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Unite had a strong showing at the Labour Party Conference throughout the week till the very last day on Wednesday (October 11). See highlights from the last day of conference below, with Unite general secretary Sharon Graham out and about with delegat…Read more…
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham gave a barnstorming speech on bringing energy back into public hands on Monday (October 9) at the Labour Party Conference. You can watch the full speech in the video clip below and read a summary of her speech here.
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Unite general secretary Sharon Graham reiterated her union’s call to take energy back into public hands at the Labour Party Conference on Monday (October 9), in a speech that was dominated by cheers and applause. Moving a motion on critical infrastructure, Unite’s leader began by thanking workers in Britain who “fought the profiteers as well […]
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In the early 1970s the American liberal philosopher John Rawls wrote “A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you’d be willing to enter it in a random place”. The quote sums up the aspirations of the age. Ever-rising living standards allowed ordinary workers to believe that their kids would […]
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Labour’s recent reshuffle has sent a clear message. They want to take us back to the 90s. The trouble is, times have changed. Tinkering around the edges is not enough. To fix our broken economy we need intervention. Not politicians who are scared stiff of doing anything other than stand on the sidelines as profiteers […]
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Unite delegates were out in full force on the first day of the 155th TUC Congress in Liverpool on Sunday (September 10). You can view highlights from the day in the photos below.
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In 1997 Labour came to power during what many described as an economic boom. Without having to do much except keep their hands firmly on the tiller, the cash available to the exchequer grew.
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Today, Friday August September 25, Unite announced that after three months of strike action hundreds of workers employed by homelessness charity St Mungo’s have now ended their long running strike, after accepting a pay increase of 10.74 per cent.
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