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This weekend sees the Yorkshire and the Humber trade unions gather for their annual conference in Leeds to determine their policy for the next year – and it is a packed agenda. BILL ADAMS reports
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THIS weekend sees the region’s trade unions gathering for their annual conference in Leeds to discuss and determine their policy for the next year.
But let no one be misled by its proximity to April Fools’ Day — this conference that aims to fool no-one. It will send out messages of support, struggle and defiance in response to continuing attacks on workers and their families across the region.
Support for our junior doctors, locked in a titanic struggle to save the NHS from privatisation by a government hell-bent on encouraging the profit ethos from their rich friends in multinational companies.
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