Socialist Party & Unison NEC member   Hugo Pierre (centre), alongside others, taking part in the 8 August health workers' protests for a 15% pay increase. Photo Sarah SE

Socialist Party & Unison NEC member Hugo Pierre (centre), alongside others, taking part in the 8 August health workers’ protests for a 15% pay increase. Photo Sarah SE   (Click to enlarge: opens in new window)

Hugo Pierre, a Socialist Party member and candidate for Unison general secretary, is on the ballot paper for the election after receiving the nomination of 31 branches across the country and the different sectors Unison organises.

Hugo is also endorsed by the union’s National Black Members’ Committee.

The ballot will run from 28 October to 27 November 2020.

Hugo is standing on the following programme:

  • We won’t pay for the Covid-19 crisis!
  • Local authorities: a national fight for £10 billion funding – fight all cuts and demand Labour councillors don’t vote for cuts
  • For a renationalised NHS and social care sector with full collective bargaining and national terms and conditions
  • Reverse all education privatisation. Academies back to local authorities
  • Full funding for further and higher education
  • For a real fight on public sector pay to reverse the ‘austerity years’ pay cuts – for a £15-an-hour minimum wage
  • Fight for jobs and homes, not racism. Black lives matter!
  • Not a penny of members’ money to Labour representatives who back cuts, privatisation or austerity
  • For genuine members’ control of our union, with the election of union officials
  • For a trade union fight to end environmental catastrophe
  • A pledge not to take the £138,000-a-year salary. but live on a worker’s wage

Rules introduced by Unison to clamp down on democratic debate in the union mean that candidates for union elections cannot ‘invite or accept’ support ‘in money or kind’ from any entity which ‘is not provided for in Unison rules’. This article has been produced without the authorisation of Hugo Pierre, in order to comply with these requirements.