{"id":4442,"date":"2025-12-17T11:03:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=4442"},"modified":"2025-12-17T11:03:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:03:31","slug":"left-wing-candidate-andrea-egan-beats-starmer-ally-to-lead-unison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=4442","title":{"rendered":"Left-wing candidate Andrea Egan beats Starmer ally to lead Unison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Left-wing candidate Andrea Egan has been elected as the new leader of Unison, the UK&#8217;s biggest trade union, in a blow to Sir Keir Starmer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Ms Egan, who was expelled from the Labour Party three years ago, beat the union&#8217;s current general secretary Christina McAnea, an ally of the prime minister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Following her election, Ms Egan promised to &#8220;stand up to any employer, politician or cabinet minister who acts against our interests&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">During her campaign, she had pledged to hold Labour&#8217;s &#8220;feet to the fire&#8221; and refuse to write the party &#8220;blank cheques&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Leftwing #candidate #Andrea #Egan #beats #Starmer #ally #lead #Unison<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left-wing candidate Andrea Ega&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}