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STEVE PREDDY is glad to be back at Tolpuddle celebrating workers' victories past, present – and future
RESOLVE: Unite the Union rep Marie Spence on a strike picket at Glenveagh School, Belfast

WE WELCOME friends and colleagues back to Tolpuddle again for the first time since 2019. 

Solidarity to all those workers engaged in industrial disputes across a rejuvenated trade union movement! Your fight is our fight!  

Since we last met in Dorset at this historic festival event, Unite’s first female general secretary Sharon Graham was elected with a determination to refocus resources on jobs, pay and conditions. 

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