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Members of Unite employed by Serco at Barts Health NHS Trust, on strike over pay, protest outside Serco's presentation of financial results at JP Morgan, in London
TRADE unions are more important to the success of the Labour Party than ever before, the party’s youth representative has said.
Lara McNeill, a medical student who was recently elected to Labour’s national executive committee (NEC) as youth rep, said that “unions are for life, not just for elections.”
She made the comments in response to NEC member and Momentum director Christine Shawcroft’s suggestion earlier this month that it was “time to support disaffiliation of the unions from the Labour Party,” which was met with widespread condemnation.
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
