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JESS TURNER is Unison Cymru Wales’s new regional secretary and has taken over from Dominic MacAskill, who is still a member of the Morning Star’s management committee.
The union in Wales remains in safe hands as Turner is steeped in the labour and trade union movement and has a clear sense of class consciousness.
She was raised in and around Swansea and her parents met at a trade union conference.
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