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| | July 2001: UNISON reconsiders its links with Labour (Socialist Party Press Release) |
 | | In moving the motion, Glen Kelly, Branch Secretary of Bromley Unison, and Socialist Party member, summed up the mood of many at the conference when he said: "We've handed £750,000 over to Labour's election fund at the same time as New Labour have handed Dudley hospital workers over to the private sector. |
 | | Proposing the motion in the Unison debate, Glen Kelly, a Socialist Party member from Bromley, said that, by making the donation, the union was "feeding the hand that bites us". |
 | | He said that while the motion - passed by 478,000 votes to 386,000 - was proposed by the Socialist Party, many of the speakers in favour were Labour Party members. |
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