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• ‘A struggle is a struggle. That’s why we’ve got to stick together’

  12-08-2022 12:24
  
  UNISON president Andrea Egan says she’s given her life to the trade union movement. A committed UNISON and local government activist of over three decades in Bolton, she “couldn’t be prouder” to be from the North West,
  Describing how the union has given her the resources and space to help make a difference, she noted: “As a working-class woman, it’s allowed me to really fulfil that deep sense of how unfair and unequal society is, and has allowed me a plat
  
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• Exam board staff add strike on GCSE results day

  12-08-2022 12:01
  
  New strike dates involving staff at exam board AQA will coincide with the day later this month when students receive their GCSE grades, says UNISON today (Friday).
  This is the fourth round of action to be announced in the long-running dispute regarding pay and fire and rehire threats to staff, says the union.
  The 180 workers​, including staff in customer services ​who would normally take calls from schools, parents and pupils on results day, will take action from
  
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