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This year’s TUC president 2020/21 will be Unite assistant general secretary GAIL CARTMAIL. Amanda Campbell spoke to her about her hopes and aims for her term at the top
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TUESDAY September 15, was unforgettable moment in the life of Unite assistant general secretary Gail Cartmail. Because on that date, at the close of this year’s TUC conference, Gail became the president of the TUC and will hold the office until the close of next year’s conference.
Presiding over the Trades Union Congress is probably the greatest honour any active trade unionist can hope to achieve. But, like most from a working-class background, it was not an easy path to the top.
Gail’s father was a postman and her mother was a refugee from the Nazi-occupied Channel Islands. Gail was proud of her father, a union member, like everyone working for the Post Office then.
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