Howard Beckett

Unite members now have an important decision to make: you decide what our future union looks like. We have achieved so much – but we can always do more. I want members to continue to help build a union which best represents you and your experiences in the workplace and in your communities.

We know that this rabid Tory government is determined to make workers pay for this health crisis – just like the made workers pay for the bankers crisis.

Our trade union has a historic duty to stop that from happening.

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Throughout my time with Unite the union, serving our members in many capacities - most recently as Assistant General Secretary, leading Unite’s Political, Membership and Legal departments and with sector responsibility for Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Process & Textiles and Service Industries, I have ensured the core values and demands of our members are at the forefront of our union’s operation – from fighting bad bosses and rogue employers, to demanding this Government support workers throughout the coronavirus crisis and fighting for tangible improvements in the lives of Unite members and our society.

It has been a hell of a year for Unite members, dealing with the stresses of the public health crisis at home and in their workplaces. Unite’s reps have been at the forefront of fighting to ensure safety at work, fighting off attacks on pay and conditions and stepping up to ensure our communities supported each other when the Government repeatedly failed to help. Their efforts in this crisis have been and continue to be incredible.

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But how can we make change happen?

We must now combine all our strength to fight back.

Our real terms pay has gone down year-on-year, key workers are exhausted and insulted with a pay freeze, entire industries and sectors under unprecedented pressure, workers terms and conditions are being attacked and our society is collapsing under the weight of health inequalities and food poverty – and despite these challenges we see Unite members leading the way and winning in workplaces.

Union reps have made significant gains for members, throughout a difficult time, ensuring members were safe at work, ensuring people received furlough payments, paid time off and fighting off redundancies.

We must now use all of our industrial and political muscle to demand change, to fight for our industrial sectors, to fight for social justice, to fight for changes in legislation and to fight for a future for the next generation.

We must commit to state of the art resources for all of those members standing up for the collective. Those members must be resourced. There must be a process of decentralisation to the regions and nations so that they have power over their own disputes too.

As your General Secretary my focus will always be our members and their workplaces struggles and making sure they have a union which is supportive, effective and that wins.