New leader says Unite needs to ‘get back to what it says on the union tin – fight for jobs, pay and conditions’

Workers should not pin all their hopes on Labour winning the next election to improve pay and conditions after the Covid-19 pandemic, the new leader of Britain’s biggest trade union has warned.

In a significant intervention weeks before Sir Keir Starmer’s first in-person party speech, Sharon Graham said Unite would “get back to what it says on the trade union tin” and expressed reservations about the limits of what MPs could achieve.

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