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Empowered, loosely followed by inspired, educated and fired-up are how I felt after spending two days on community courses with Unite the union in Cardiff recently.
Forward-thinking, the union is opening up to ordinary people like me who don't work in the typical unionised workplaces you associate traditionally with union membership.
Mums, the unemployed, the disabled, the retired and the self-employed are all being offered membership and access to courses, to equip people in the wider community to fight the dreadful cuts that this government's forced austerity are imposing on us all.
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