Unison - New leader - Anti Sex Realist

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Outsider candidate Andrea Egan has won the Unison general secretaryship with 59.82% of the vote.

https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/unison-challenger-andrea-egan-labour-government-done-little-working-people

Another is standing up for trans workers. I wonder what she makes of Sandie Peggie, the NHS nurse who complained about having to use the same hospital dressing room as a trans colleague. She has launched legal action against her trade union, alleging that the Royal College of Nursing failed to support her. How would Egan react if a similar case came to Unison?

“I haven’t followed that case. But what were the real issues within that? I have trans friends, trans women friends; my nephew is a trans man. I wouldn’t have an issue. I’d want to understand. Because the argument can then develop to anybody saying… ‘Well, I don’t want you there because you’ve got blonde hair’ or ‘I don’t want them there because they’ve got blue eyes’,” Egan says.

“We have members come to the union with all kinds of issues, and some of them are unreasonable, but you’ve got to unpick them.”

It sounds like she wouldn’t be comfortable with the union representing someone like Peggie? “I wouldn’t,” she agrees.

Oh dear . I was a Unison union rep way back in the 90s. With that attitude I'd have been voted out pronto.

Fucking hell! What stupid comments, the sort of thing a 5 year old would say.

FFS. This is why the (western) world is fucked. The quality of people coming through.

and breathe…

If she cant work out if a union member should or should not be forced to strip out of her uniform in front of a member of the other sex she is not exactly a deep thinker?

Or that workers would not have to agree to sign a contract which allows their manager demand they attend daily strip shows either?

But it is so old fashioned to expect a Union to accept the underlying sexual harrassment in these cases.

But I am sure 👀 she would fully accept that her female family member should housed and managed as a male in a prison (including sharing cells) or other situation where sex is relevant.