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GAWAIN LITTLE highlights the General Federation of Trade Unions’ new education programme - to help forge the unity and strength we need to force a change of direction for Britain
STOP DEINDUSTRALISATION: Steel workers march down Whitehall in London to protest outside the Houses of Parliament, June 28 2023

OUR trade union movement faces very real challenges over the coming months and years. 

We are experiencing a cost-of-living crisis not of our making. As inflation goes through the roof, profits are sky-high and the only thing not rising is our members’ wages. 

Many of us work in, and all of us use, public services which have been systematically underfunded and fragmented, many subject to privatisation. 

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