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‘We want to use the union as a vehicle to empower our members’
David Nicholson talks to new Unison Cymru Wales regional secretary JESS TURNER about how she sees the role, what switched her on to trade unionism, and ensuring women have a voice

JESS TURNER is Unison Cymru Wales’s new regional secretary and has taken over from Dominic MacAskill, who is still a member of the Morning Star’s management committee.
The union in Wales remains in safe hands as Turner is steeped in the labour and trade union movement and has a clear sense of class consciousness.
She was raised in and around Swansea and her parents met at a trade union conference.
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