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In government, we’ll be knocking down walls for the trade union movement
Labour will be working together with the unions, hand in hand, to transform our society, says LAURA PIDCOCK
Laura Pidcock applauds at TUC Congress

I, LIKE the rest of our party, am immensely proud of the historic link between the trade union movement and the Labour Party. 

And I will never apologise for seeing the unions as an equal partner in this movement. 

That’s why Jeremy Corbyn has made the ministry of employment rights such a central plank in what Labour will do in government.

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