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AN increasingly popular classroom session in secondary schools and sixth-form colleges is teaching children about trade unions.
The national programme run by Unite the Union teaches 15 to 18-year-olds how trade unions work to improve the pay and conditions of their members as well as protecting them against discrimination or bullying.
London & Eastern community and Unite in Schools co-ordinator Vic Paulino says: “When we go there and ask them if they have ever heard of a trade union, none of them know what a trade union is. Not one of them it is just ridiculous that we don’t have that in our curriculum.”
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