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Communicate, communicate, communicate
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WHEN I was first elected as a trade union general secretary in the 1980s, our national means of communications were a Gestetner machine and Lettraset.
I was forever messing up the stencils with mistakes on the manual typewriter and splattered with ink.
The trade union movement itself was established long before WhatsApp and Zoom, phones, trains and even bicycles.
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