Profiteering bosses, not workers, are pushing up inflation. Here’s how to fight back – Unite’s leader, Sharon Graham, is leading the charge against 21st-century corporations. Why isn’t Labour following suit?

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  1. > Since taking over eight months ago, Graham has led 52,000 members into more than 300 disputes. Of those that have been resolved, Unite has won three out of four. In the past few months alone, workers at Gatwick have scored a 21% pay rise, those at Devonport dockyard in Plymouth have won 13%, and employees at the BMW Mini plant in Oxford have accepted a 21% rise over the next three years. She has pioneered a strategy called leverage. When battling multinationals, she will call in forensic accountants (Unite has just hired its own) and other analysts to go through every detail of the company, its owners and shareholders and their various advisers.

    > Documents are produced over many weeks that stretch to many hundreds of pages. Then a “dirt dossier” is put together, and Graham and her team start pushing on contractors, clients and foreign governments considering giving business to her corporate opponents. It has proved to be a devastatingly successful strategy. She has warned City analysts that Unite’s response to British Airways’ fire and rehire policy will damage its business, and has lobbied the Norwegian government against awarding a contract to a bus company. And time and again, she has won.

  3. Both wrong.

    Labour shortages are pushing up inflation.

    And the UK just voted to make theirs worse than most places.

    1.1 million people less in the labour market than before pandemic.

    Stuff not being made. Services not being run.

    And the ageing UK population means more people retire each year than join the work force.

    Unemployment is at its lowest in decades. There is nobody available to hire, and nowhere to access new workers.

    Stagflation beckons.

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