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Delegates representing 800,000 workers in north-west England will meet for the first time in three years at the annual conference of North West Region of the Trade Union Congress in Liverpool today. Regional secretary JAY McKENNA looks at some of the big issues coming up
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IT’S great to be back in person and getting unions together from across the movement at our conference.
Conference takes place against the backdrop of the P&O dispute, the latest in a long line of employers seeking to exploit staff and loopholes in employment law.
We’ll be hearing about this from RMT and showing our full solidarity to the campaign as we have done at demonstrations recently.
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