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UNITE is set to launch a nationwide campaign in battleground parliamentary seats to “unify workers and local communities” and highlight the “failure of politicians to act” against the worsening cost-of-living crisis.
The Unite for a Workers’ Economy initiative, which will begin with a major billboard campaign in Glasgow, Hull, Derby, Crawley and elsewhere, will look to “drive the political agenda as opposed to commenting on it,” the union said.
Sharon Graham, who was elected the union’s general secretary in August last year, said: “Over the last 12 months Unite has delivered at the workplace winning over £100 million for members in dispute.
“As promised in my manifesto, Unite will now use that power to do the same within our communities.
“We will help deliver practical change that people can touch and feel, and we will develop our own programme – a ‘workers’ manifesto’.”
The country’s economy “isn’t working for workers, only for corporate Britain and its rich backers,” she charged.
“It’s time for workers and communities to fight back [and] build a movement for real change based on a unity of the workplace with local communities – popular working-class power.”
