Unison director of organising KEVIN LUCAS explains the Organising to Win strategy, its successes to date and key tests on the union’s horizon
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Left unity to stop Gerard Coyne securing right-wing control of Unite could not be more important
Unite flags during a strike of BA cabin crew in 2010, the year Len McCluskey became leader. The union's industrial and political militancy are at stake in the current leadership contest
Young workers do want to get involved in Unison, and where that is enabled we see growth in workplace power, argue Unison North West Young Members co-chairs ZAIHERA CHAUDHRY and IAN CAULFIELD
British military spending is among the highest in the world, diverts scarce resources from far better causes and fuels international conflict. It’s time we made different choices, argues LIZ PAYNE
Trade unions, trades councils and community organisations must work together to build lasting solidarity and resistance to the far right, argues DREW GILCHRIST
Animal metaphors are testament to delight in the non-human world and what we hope and wish for human freedom, argue ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT"
Economists estimate extreme poverty could be drastically reduced for a fraction of global defence spending, yet military budgets continue to expand year on year, says JON TRICKETT MP, ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
THE forthcoming election of a new Unite general secretary is a crucial political event with implications well beyond the labour movement. And those that worked so hard and consistently to stop Jeremy Corbyn know it.
They will make the necessary effort to end the strategically left-leaning and combative leadership of Unite. Gerard Coyne, who was sacked in 2017 after wrongly using Labour Party data to contact potential supporters in the last general secretary election, is their choice. In that election Coyne lost narrowly, by 5,000 votes, to sitting general secretary Len McCluskey on a low turnout.
Unite plays a leading role in the movement and recently, with Steve Turner in the lead, successfully pursued difficult negotiations with the government resulting in the introduction of the furlough scheme and other measures, to the benefit of millions of workers.
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