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Amid a spiralling cost-of-living crisis, unions must show unity in order to exert the largest possible force, says RMT general secretary MICK LYNCH

THIS year’s TUC finds a trade union movement renewed, confident and most importantly, unafraid to flex its industrial muscle.
The cost-of-living crisis has escalated, with rapidly rising inflation, runaway energy prices and continued suppression of wages.
As a result, unions have started to ballot their members over pay, jobs and working conditions. And in many cases have either won disputes or begun to take industrial action.
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