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Steve Turner: my vision for Unite
If elected to lead Britain's largest union as general secretary, I will not only save jobs and defend your conditions at work, but push for green job creation — putting the nation's manufacturing industry back centre stage, where it belongs
Steve Turner head and shoulders shot

FROM Belfast to Birmingham, bus workers to car makers, Unite members want a fighter, a winner, a leader with decades of experience and who has got their back.

Members look at my track record of delivering for workers in buses, construction, aviation and the automotive industry, among young, community and retired members alike and now proudly responsible for 350,000 manufacturing workers and know that they will always come first to the Unite I lead.

I’ve taken on some of the toughest challenges and worst employers out there — and not just forced them to reverse plans to walk away from our people, but to invest and commit more deeply to them.

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