Educating the young about trade unions | Letters

Mary Sawyer of Unite in Schools says that educating students about the vital role of unions in an increasingly casualised world of work is essentialMichael Heaton (Letters, 17 July) called for the “basics of workers’ rights and the law” to be “explained to everyone before they start working”. For several years now at Unite in Schools we have run sessions with students and school leavers at hundreds of schools all over the country. We demystify trade unions, explain