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Sharon Graham: all power to the workplace
If elected general secretary of Unite, I will lead a union that focuses on the shop floor not Westminster and build up membership by delivering on jobs, pay and conditions
Sharon Graham

TRADE UNIONS are in crisis. Collective bargaining is in decline. Jobs are under threat. Pay and conditions are being cut. We need a co-ordinated fightback and a clear industrial plan for the workplace.

If political rhetoric takes the place of hard industrial work, then the left will face a real existential crisis.

The unions can be lost as surely as Labour has lost the red wall.

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