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Profile: Paul Nowak

07/01/2023

Paul Nowak

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The new general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, Paul Nowak.

The new general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, Paul Nowak, taking on the role at a time of widespread industrial action.

Paul Nowak has taken up his post as General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress at a time when workers across multiple sectors are striking for better pay deals to help with the cost-of-living crisis. It's the worst period of industrial unrest since the 1980s.

Nowak, who's from Merseyside, has spent his entire adult life fighting for workers' rights. How will the TUC negotiate with a government which says pay rises are unaffordable and inflationary, and which now plans to tighten the rules on strike action?

Adrian Goldberg investigates Paul Nowak's life - which includes a career off the picket line as an amateur musician. 

Presenter: Adrian Goldberg
Producers: Ben Cooper and Diane Richardson
Editor: Simon Watts
Production Co-ordinators: Maria Ogundele and Helena Warwick-Cross
Sound Engineer: Rod Farquhar

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