Andrea Egan

That's despite the tax being popular on the left.

Unison's General Secretary, Andrea Egan, says that there's strong public support for raising taxes on the wealthy.

We've seen cuts haven't we, for the last 16, 17 years, so I think it, it should be something that would be welcomed by Andy Burnham.

There, there's a cross-party agreement that we need more funding for better public services.

It's just common sense.

Unison's union leader, Andrea Egan, there.

Ahead of the budget, business leaders and banks have been warning that tax increases could hit growth in the UK.

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Unison, the Public and Commercial Services Union, Equity, and the Fire Brigades Union are among those calling for the project to be halted.

Unison General Secretary Andrea Egan said continued fossil fuel use was linked to increasingly volatile weather and called on the Prime Minister to reject Rosebank.

Friends of the Earth Scotland campaign leader Carolyn Rance said approval for either Rosebank or Jackdaw could lead to wider fossil fuel expansion.

Researchers have linked continued oil and gas expansion to greater risks of heat waves, wildfires, and severe weather in the United Kingdom.

Maybe the Burnham rhetoric and the contradictions within it will reawaken some party members and help get some new ones involved.

The drift in thinking expressed at the Socialist Campaign Group rally in Liverpool, where union leaders Andrea Egan and Steve Wright spoke to give Burnham hearts, Burnham time, is confusing and wrong.

No one is calling for, uh, another leadership challenge, but if giving time means not pushing labor on labor on policy, not challenging the co- un-undemocratic maneuvers s-seen at conference, not seeking to organize for democracy, not pointing out the weaknesses of Burnham's policies and their failure to match his rhetoric, we, we will certainly be giving away time we need to use for our socialist purposes.

Labor Left's Internationalists was at the conference.

Trans women no longer count as women for the purposes of determining delegations to conferences.

That was confirmed by an email from an from General Secretary Andrea Egan on 21st September and the union rules are being examined to conform to the ruling.

The UN's LGBT plus committee decided not to call for a boycott of women's conference.

That could be the right call, but the effect is to lean heavily on trans activists and their allies to accept the LGBT plus committee as the only voice that counts and not to rock the boat.