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Unite and Ukraine: Not Good Enough!

Unite’s policy on Ukraine is an EC statement passed at this year's policy conference. It is much better than the only motion submitted to that conference. But it takes a wrong and unclear position on the key issues. It remains unpublicised. It is reproduced below. But, for reasons known only to those who labour in the inner sanctum of Unite’s head office in Holborn, the statement has not yet been made public and released to the union’s own membership.

Unite: industrial advances yet to feed into politics

The big general union Unite has won a string of disputes in the private sector during the 2022-3 strike wave, and is arguably regenerating parts of its industrial organisation. The 11-14 July 2023 Unite Policy Conference it’s biennial, so this was the first since the end of the lockdowns and Sharon Graham’s election as general secretary (August 2021) illustrated how that does not automatically feed through into effective working-class politics.

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