The following statement is from members of Unite the Union who are supporting Jeremy Corbyn's leadership campaign and campaigning for their union to do the same. If you are in Unite, please sign by emailing eddmustill@gmail.com. Please circulate widely.
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We are members of Unite the union who believe that our union should give its full backing to Jeremy Corbyn in the current contest for leader of the Labour Party. Jeremy is the only consistently pro-union, anti-austerity candidate and has a long track record of supporting workers in struggle. Many of his political positions match, or are close to, those of our union.
We believe that, whatever the final result, a strong Corbyn campaign can help pull the national debate to the left, and help popularise pro-union and socialist politics inside the Labour Party and in society generally. We call on the EC to endorse and agree for Unite to nominate Corbyn. It would be a serious mistake to support any other candidate, or to support no candidate.
Surely it is time for us, as the largest Labour-affiliated union, to come out unambiguously in support of a candidate who has supported us time and time again, and whose politics most closely reflect the political aims of the trade union movement.
Edd Mustill, Young Members Officer, NW/0152M (University of Liverpool)
Elaine Jones, Equalities Officer, 6/522
Jane Stewart, Unite EC National Women's Seat
David Kirk NE204/4 (RWE Npower)
Cindy Callaghan West of Scotland Branch (Education)
Ross Quinn, NW/9515
Max Munday, Unite Community Sheffield branch
Richard Allday, Branch Secretary, LE/7055E (Suffolk Road Haulage)
Alan Thomas WM/6010
David Rourke, Sheffield (Health)
Stephen Givnan, Sheffield (Health)
Janine Booth, Clerkenwell and St Pancras Branch
Stan Crooke, Chair, Glasgow Not for Profit, Member Scottish Region Political Committee
Liam McNulty, London and Eastern 524
Luke Neal, University of Manchester, Students Union Branch
Mike Kidd, Clerkenwell and St Pancras branch
Daina Gregory, Hull Local Branch
Katie Kokkinou, Unite Community
Rachel Ward, Unite Community
Josh Chown, Unite Community, Chair of Surrey Labour Students
Bianca Todd, NN44
Jim Denham, Unite Birmingham
Ed Armston, Unite
Anita Downs, branch secretary south east London Medical branch.
Monica Gort, Unite
Natasha Eve, Unite
Graham Bash, Kent Community branch
Pam Cossland, Greater Manchester Community Branch
Ray Wood, Liverpool Community Branch
Vicki Morris, Nottingham Community Branch
Tim Cooper, Nottingham Community Branch
Val Graham, Chair, North Derbyshire Community Branch.
Bruce Robinson, John Pearson. Christine Clark, Charlotte Hughes, Norman Owen, Jim Woodward, Sylvia May Forrest, Joan Catterall, Tom Armstrong, Paul F Hance, Jan Pritchard, Nigel Rolland- all Manchester Community Branch.
Pete Campbell, Doctors in Unite (MPU) NE/408/6
Alice Grice, Nottingham Community branch.
Zarria Phillips, Bristol Community Branch.
Dave Isaacson, SE/1009C
Patrick Hall, Leeds community branch.
Vicky Grandon, RISC Chair, Scotland CYWNfP
Richard Bell, WEA Tutor and Unite member.
Christopher Ford, Holborn and St Pancras branch
Michael Calderbank, Parliamentary branch
Emma Jones-Emmett, Secretary, Leeds First Direct branch
Shelly Asquith, National Union of Students Vice President Welfare
Kevin Reynolds, Secretary, Great Yarmouth 1426 and London & Eastern Regional Cttee
John Wiseman, Chair, Liverpool 0538 branch and Vice-Chair, North West Political Cttee
Patrick Hall, Leeds community branch
Tony Dines, Central Retired Members branch
