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It's just coming up for 10 past 1

on Thursday the 11th of April.

I'm David Wallace Lockhart

and this is another one of our interview episodes.

Two in one week we are spoiling you.

If you didn't get to listen,

go back in our feed for our interview

with the Scottish Green MSP Ross Greer

from Tuesday, but joining us now ahead

of the Scottish Trade Union Congress gathering this weekend, it's their general secretary

Ros Foyer. Ros, thank you for joining us. Thank you very much for having me. I'm going to start

with a very basic question. I think as journalists we quite often talk about the STUC and think people know what we're talking about.

But actually, spell it out for us. What is the STUC?

Well, the STUC is the Scottish Trade Union Congress. It's basically the umbrella body for trade union organisations in Scotland. So we represent over 550,000 workers in every sector of the economy.

And we really try and coordinate the views and the political aspirations of our members,

both as citizens but also as workers. So essentially, do the unions come together, you know, the transport unions,

teaching unions, the health unions, and say, right, when we all get together collectively

and want to be represented as the union movement, you're the person who does that essentially.

Indeed.

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