I am supporting the General Secretary’s programme for winning jobs, pay and conditions, and transforming Unite.
EC Position: South West
Workplace: City Of Bristol College
Membership No: 15692878
Branch No: SW/001
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Suzanne Muna
As a workplace Rep at City of Bristol College, Secretary of a 1,500 member branch, and your EC member, I have represented our interests across the South West.
I am a socialist trade unionist who worked as a housing worker for almost 20 years prior to moving into the education sector. I led three blocks of industrial action at my workplace, winning improved pay and conditions, building Unite into the most prominent union, and empowering our members.
During that time, I also served as Secretary of the multi-employer Unite Housing Workers Branch helping to develop and resource reps from a diversity of workplaces, and creating the first informal combines to help unify our struggles. I have continued campaigning and housing activism in the five years since leaving my housing role, building SHAC and working towards a national, democratic housing union for tenants and residents.
At my current workplace, we are now building a Unite presence through mapping and recruitment with the aim of giving our members a higher profile and more influence over their pay and conditions.
The last three years on Unite's national executive have been critical in successfully holding Unite true to the comprehensive manifesto that Sharon Graham was elected on. This was despite significant resistance by executive councillors opposed to developing a more democratic, accountable, and industrially focussed union. Although much has been achieved in ensuring that Unite is a militant union, there is still a significant amount to do.
Over the next three years, Unite will face important, strategic, industrial battles such as that of the inspiring Birmingham bin workers, and political questions for example over our relationship of affiliation to the Labour Party, as well as seeking to improve democracy and lay control within the union. It is for this reason that I am seeking nomination alongside SW Territorial Candidate Jed Ellis and others on the Back to the Workplace slate
As a supporter of the Unite Broad Left I fully support the programme laid out on the home page.
I am also part of the 'Back to the workplace' slate of Executive candidates.
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