Dave Prentis has been re-elected as general secretary of Britain’s biggest union, UNISON, having polled 75% of the votes.
Rival candidates Roger Bannister and Jon Rogers received 16.9% and 7.5% respectively.
Of the win, Prentis who has been general secretary of the union since January 2001 said:
“The membership has endorsed that agenda and the direction in which we have taken the union. Working in partnership with officers and lay members, we have taken the union forward. UNISON is growing in strength and is a strong, united, independent, campaigning union which puts the interests of its members first.”
Prentis has vowed to continue with campaigns to defend members’ interests particularly he said in respect to their pensions and the plight of public service workers.
