Man who wrote Sharon Graham’s first Unite manifesto now supports challenger

Man who wrote Sharon Graham’s first Unite manifesto now supports challenger

Sharon Graham’s former Unite election campaign organiser Matt Smith now supports her opponent, Simon Dubbins. Having seen Graham in action as general secretary, Smith believes that another five years of Graham would be “an utter disaster for our union”. But he didn’t only play an extensive role in her 2021 general secretary election campaign. According to senior union insiders, he “wrote her manifesto”, Skwawkbox can exclusively reveal. Unite en…

Unite leadership election: stick or twist?

A Unite the Union member considers the choice offered by the two contenders for the post of General Secretary. My ballot paper dropped through the letterbox today. Members of Unite the Union have a binary choice of potential General Secretaries – stick with the incumbent candidate Sharon Graham, or vote instead for Simon Dubbins, the […]