Time for an honest conversation about trade unions | Letters

Unite leader Len McCluskey takes part in a demonstration to demand more funding for the NHS. ‘Unions have consistently been portrayed as old-fashioned and clueless,’ writes Martin Spence.It was welcome to see space given to comment on the government’s so-called proposed industrial strategy (Built to last, 17 April) together with an article the same day on a TUC call for workers’ rights being central to Brexit. But Zoe Williams’ comment that “distribution of pr