Skip to main content
Gifts from The Morning Star
Unison general secretary tells conference that the chance for a better world is in their hands
Unison general secretary Christina McAnea, joins ambulance workers on the picket line outside North Bristol Operations Centre, for the South Western Ambulance Service during a strike by members of the Unison union in the long-running dispute over pay and staffing, February 10, 2023

UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea told conference delegates today that it was in their hands to make a better world after 14 years of Tory assaults on public services.

She said that “it was a great time to be meeting, in the middle of a general election campaign,” as this gave the union a chance to put an end to 14 years of disastrous and divisive Tory rule.

Unison needs to maintain unity after “14 years of Tory chaos and cuts,” Ms McAnea added.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
More from this author
FORWARD TOGETHER: Lenin giving a speech to the delegates of the Second World Congress of the Communist International on July/August 1920 / Pic: Retake by George Shuklin/Museum of Political History of Russia/Public domain
Features / 21 August 2025
21 August 2025

ROGER McKENZIE looks at the gradual demise of US’s nefarious influence around the world and the complexity of impending freedom

Cargo
Features / 12 August 2025
12 August 2025

ROGER McKENZIE asks whether the US’s shift to targeting everyone at once will instil greater co-operation among rising powers

FLAGGING POWER OF THE WEST: Nigerian and US soldiers raise their respective flags at a US military base in the country in 2018; last year, at the demand of the new transitional government of General Abdurahmane Tchiani, all US troops left. Photo: Africom
Features / 7 August 2025
7 August 2025

ROGER McKENZIE reports on the west African country, under its new anti-imperialist government, taking up the case for compensation for colonial-era massacres

Similar stories
(left to right) Health Secretary Wes Streeting, Dr James Mar
Britain / 9 April 2025
9 April 2025
Labour warned that workers expect better as anger mounts over welfare cuts and public-sector pay