TRADE unions and students will launch a joint campaign today to fight against the government’s erosion of workers’ rights and its attack on education over the coming year.
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady and new National Union of Students (NUS) president Megan Dunn will sign the joint agreement at Congress House, London.
The organisations will work together to fight discrimination on campuses, in workplaces and in wider society and to defend further and higher education from privatisation.
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