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Union members on the picket line outside Scottish Water's scientific services department at Juniper House in Edinburgh, as Scottish Water workers go on strike in a dispute over pay and grading, April 22, 2025
THE General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) conference today called for greater trade union support for the trades council movement.
Conference heard from CWU activist Dave Chapple of Bridgewater and Paula Dunne from Oxford on the vital work trades councils do in linking trade union struggles to the local community.
Through the history of the movement, trades councils had been how unions “built working-class solidarity … [by bringing] together all the trade unions in a locality,” Mr Chapple said.
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