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The battle for toilet dignity
On World Toilet Day DIANA HOLLAND explains how Unite is fighting for its driver members to have proper facilities provided
by the Greater Manchester Workers’ and Tenants’ Association
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WORLD Toilet Day, November 19, is an important date in the diary — it is when we highlight the millions of people who are denied access to decent toilets and sanitation.
Traditionally the focus of World Toilet Day has been in parts of the world where the lack of clean toilets and safe running water is a scandal that the world has failed to tackle and which results in untold deaths every year.
However, in recent years working with the the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF), and the World Toilet Federation, Unite has focused on how in the 21st century hundreds of thousands of workers in the UK are denied toilet dignity.
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