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AS trade unionists from across the country meet in Brighton for this year’s TUC Congress, there’s a good chance that by the time we leave here on Wednesday evening a general election will have been called.
Even if it hasn’t, it feels almost certain that we will have one before the year is out. And for the movement this is a huge opportunity.
There is no doubt in my mind that Labour is in a position where it is promising the single most ambitious programme to grow trade unions, and to enhance collective and individual employment rights, that this country has ever seen.
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