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...education. I admired the BASSA union reps because they spoke with courage and conviction on our behalf. Walking out and supporting strike action on the picket line was daunting but necessary. I was by this time a long-standing and committed trade union activist, but by 1997 I was not only supporting strike action, but actively organising it. I was elected the BASSA...

...educated and skilled, were motivated in their migration to the UK by factors such as joining an existing ethnic community or family members, the relative ease of self employment in the UK, as well as what they perceived to be a more multiculturalist society where ethnic differences were more welcomed than they felt in their European home countries. However, as we spoke...