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‘If we want to keep winning for workers, we have to be stronger’
TUC’s Kate Bell cautions on dip in union membership
Delegates attending this year's BFAWU conference in Staffordshire

THE labour movement must address a “worrying fall” in union membership nationwide, TUC assistant general secretary Kate Bell said today.

The ex-adviser to former Labour leader Ed Miliband told food workers in Staffordshire that “if we want to keep winning for workers, we have to be stronger.”

Despite last year seeing the biggest strike wave to sweep Britain in decades, total union membership — which stood at 13.2 million in 1979 — is estimated to have fallen by 200,000 to 6.7m last year.

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