Interview 'Under my leadership Unite could look confidently to the future'
STEVE TURNER’S first few days as a 19-year-old London bus conductor proved a baptism of fire. Having been signed up for the Transport and General Workers Union (T&GWU) on day one, he found himself charged with “riotous affray” within the first week. His garage had walked out as part of a TUC campaign in 1982 in support of a nurses’ pay claim. The judge found him not guilty when police allegations that union members had intimidated a scab bus driver were found to have been inventions. “That was the last bit of solidarity action before Thatcher’s government outlawed secondary acti...
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