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‘The fiscal rules are a noose around our neck,’ Unite's SHARON GRAHAM tells the Morning Star – it's time to tax the rich
Unite union general secretary Sharon Graham, December 21, 2022
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MAT COWARD explains how in the 17th century a row over whether to kneel at communion became a battle over religion, class and royal power
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TODAY Labour conference will vote on the cut to winter fuel payments for pensioners — and, says Unite general secretary Sharon Graham, “it feels like a win already” to have got it onto the agenda.
The union had been battling behind the scenes to ensure its motion — which besides the winter fuel payment calls on Labour to drop the “fiscal rules” it has adopted from the Tories — got debated at all.
“It was really important we got this motion on the floor. They have to reverse the winter fuel payment cuts, they’ve got to do a U-turn. I don’t know how they can have made a decision to cut this while leaving the richest in our society untouched.
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