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A politicised mass movement is what needs to be built
TOM MORRISON looks at the challenges facing Scottish trade unionists as they gather for STUC Congress today
Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard addresses the STUC annual congress in 2019

THE STUC acknowledges that it meets this year “in some of the most challenging times that trade unions have ever faced.” 

Congress is an online one-day event with all the motions remitted and two general council reports debated.

A strategy is given for the next six months up to the 2021 Congress and the Scottish parliamentary elections. 

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