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Unite general secretary Sharon Graham
SHARON GRAHAM made no apology for defending workers today after the Tories called on Labour to reject Unite’s funding over its new leader’s industrial campaign tactics.
Tory Party co-chair Amanda Milling has written to Labour chairwoman Anneliese Dodds, urging the party to stop taking funding from the union — its biggest donor — because of “intimidatory” and “sinister” leverage campaigning.
This follows pledges from Ms Graham, who become Unite’s first female general secretary on Thursday, to ramp up the use of the tactics as leader.
HENRY FOWLER, assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), reports on Day 2 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
Megapicket to shut down Birmingham’s refuse sites
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES