Additional Unite Education equalities materials
Booklets & recordings
Women
Julia Varley -
trade union organiser and fighter for women’s rights
Julia
Varley was a working class woman who fought all her life for equal and civil
rights, decent pay and working conditions. From an early age she recognised the
power of collectivism and over the rest of her life she recruited many
thousands of people to join her in the struggle for VOTES FOR WOMEN and TRADE
UNION BARGAINING RIGHTS and without which all workers are at the mercy of the
employing class.
Her unique
ability – often by combining strike action with political agitation – to
organise the low paid, especially women, was possibly without parallel in the
second decade of the twentieth century.
https://markwritecouk.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/6328-julia-varley-booklet.pdf
Based on an original autobiography
Betty
Tebbs (1918 – 2017)– a radical working class hero
https://markwritecouk.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/6328-betty-tebbs-web.pdf
Online talk
by Mark Metcalf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJzlvL4G1Gw&feature=youtu.be
LGBT+ Betty
Gallacher – standing up for all workers
https://markwritecouk.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/betty-gallacher-booklet-2020.pdf
DIANA HOLLAND, ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY: Betty Gallacher
represents to the core what it means to be a trade unionist. Always fiercely
standing up for union members, challenging all forms of injustice, and playing
her part in the community, Betty Gallacher has never been floored by a hard
struggle. She has made sure too, that she is there for shared sorrows and
rebuilding, not just there when things are going well. Those of us who had the
joy of participating in Pride on the iconic “Betty’s Bus”, first in the T&G
and then in Unite, knew it was her dedication, negotiation and creativity that
made the difference. Listen to book at:- https://markwritecouk.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/betty-gallagher-rev-final.mp3
20-minute
BBC Radio Sussex interview with Betty at: https://markwritecouk.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/mid-morning-on-bbc-radio-sussex-sarah-gorrell-20_11_2020.mp3
BAEM
Mohammad Taj – Steering from the front https://markwritecouk.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/6328dpmt2018-taj-booklet-web.pdf
Elected TUC President on 11 September 2013, the first Muslim
and the first South Asian President, bus driver Mohammad Taj’s story is an
incredible journey.
Disabled
REMEMBERING Sean McGovern by his family, friends
and comrades – a trade union champion for disabled people https://markwritecouk.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sean-mcgovern-booklet-final-print-june-2022.pdf
The main tutorial room in the Unite National Education
Centre in Birmingham is dedicated to Sean McGovern – that alone is testament to
the high regard (and affection) with which our Union’s members held Sean
McGovern. And Sean was not, as you will discover in this excellent account of
Sean’s life, only a great trade unionist, he was additionally a very successful
campaigner for disabled peoples’ rights and a formidable political operator.
Perhaps Sean’s most significant contribution was his ability to integrate
different strands into coherent campaigning; and to do all that with integrity
and courage.
As Sean McGovern (1957-2020) was a unique character it is
entirely appropriate that this first ever booklet on a disabled trade unionist
is about him. This work follows a very simple format in that it consists of
Sean’s own words accompanied by interviews with some of his family and great
friends.
Podcast
and short talks on the Unite oral history platform
TUNE IN TO The UNITE ORAL HISTORY project has inspired over
100 members of all ages to be interviewed about their working lives and how
they’ve tried to improve wages and conditions and been involved through the
union in political campaigns and movements.
https://open.spotify.com/show/7BqkJ0UnnIC1edzdq0Jv37
https://anchor.fm/uniteoralhistory/episodes/
Numerous interviews with young, BAEM, LGBT+, women and
disabled members speaking out.
UNITE NW has backed the Ellen Strange
commemoration committee that highlights domestic violence.
Booklet: https://markwritecouk.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/ellen-strange-booklet.pdf
Watch the very powerful 20-minute documentary film
ELLEN STRANGE – The Light that still burns
On Holcombe Moor in Lancashire, the world's oldest domestic
violence memorial site is inspiring the current generation of campaigners, and
survivors of domestic violence, to raise awareness, garner support, and offer
help to those in dire need.
Featuring the former UNITE North West chairperson Martin
McMulkin, and Endeavour Project representative, Linda Charnock
at:- https://vimeo.com/580567569 Mark Metcalf metcalfmc@outlook.com
07392 852561
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