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Unite general secretary Len McCluskey won prolonged applause from delegates when he defended his union’s role in the Falkirk constituency.
The applause reached a crescendo when Mr McCluskey asked the conference to demonstrate its support for Stevie Deans, former Unite convenor at the Grangemouth oil refinery.
Mr Deans was “a decent working man, a loyal Labour member and a trade unionist” who had been “hounded out of his job,” declared Mr McCluskey.
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‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
Sharon Graham addresses the Unite policy conference after talks over the Birmingham bin strikes break down
