Unions of all kinds are flexing their muscles. Should we be celebrating?

New Unite union boss Sharon Graham has promised to make every UK workplace ‘action ready’ and vowed to take on Amazon

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The new boss of Britain’s second-largest union is barely a week into the job but already ruffling feathers, said Henry Bodkin in The Daily Telegraph. Sharon Graham of Unite has promised to escalate the use of controversial “leverage tactics” – protests and social media campaigns targeting companies, their senior managers and investors – and to make every UK workplace “action ready”.

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