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A Unison rally in 2016 with general secretary Dave Prentis (left)
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THE occasion of the TUC’s 150th anniversary gives us the opportunity to step back and reflect on our movement’s past and future.
My own union Unison is a mere 25 years old and it was formed of three unions that did not even exist in 1868. Unison is now a mass public service union with a majority of female members.
The emergence and growth of such a union would have been very hard to imagine for our forebears 150 years ago.
Jeannie Mole is one of the characters from the past who we have been hearing about in this anniversary year.
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