Sharon Graham, Unite general secretary said the “remaining financial support” her union provides the Labour Party was “under review”. Unite is Britain's second-biggest union and Labour's biggest donor.
stressed that Sir Keir’s party needed to “act like labour, be the party for workers” and accused Labour-run Coventry council of “mistreatment” of members, where refuse workers have been on strike for weeks in a long-running row over pay.
“Your behaviour and mistreatment of our members will not be accepted. It’s time to act like labour, be the party for workers.”
Graham said that Coventry council, which is run by Labour, has "time and again totally misrepresented the union’s claims for its bin drivers". She added that the local authority "should be ashamed of the spin it has tried to make about its own workers’ pay rates".
In December Ms Graham said she did not think Unite was getting "the best value" from its cash by giving it to Labour. She said: "The fact that I am being quite robust is because Labour needs to talk about workers, needs to defend workers and needs to defend communities."
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