Reunite the EC: Support the united slate!
Reunite is proud to endorse a united slate of Executive Council candidates representing a growing movement from across our union’s industrial sectors, regions, nations and equalities strands.
This is the most important EC election in our union’s history. This is the moment to unite against the division and toxicity which threatens the future of our union.
With statements from candidates seeking nomination now online, Reunite publishes our list of endorsed candidates below. More names will be endorsed as candidates come forward. We call on all members and reps to support these candidates and support the movement to reunite our union.
The names already announced bring together workplace leaders from across our union, with industrial independents standing alongside candidates from existing member-led groups brought together under the campaign banner of Members United.
Many of the candidates have made clear in their statements that they support the movement to reunite our union and commit to working together to rebuild our union’s industrial and political strength, demand accountability with members’ money, and overcome division with unity.
This united slate of candidates represents a rank-and-file movement from the workplace. We have no need to go "back to the workplace" - we are already there, fighting and winning for members! These candidates are our real industrial leaders; those truly on the frontlines. They are battling austerity, saving sites from closure and winning major pay victories. Now they are standing to defend our union.
In contrast, candidates standing on the regime slate face the indignity of being reduced to props for Sharon Graham’s ego. Many have clearly been made to use identical wording, dedicating the entirety of their statements to mimicking talking points praising Sharon Graham.
This is a regime which tries to claim our workplace struggles and hard won victories as their own to feed the ego of the leadership. This is a regime now reliant on threats and intimidation against union employees to prop itself up. This is a regime which judges even its own candidates only on their loyalty to Sharon Graham. Such people can no longer be allowed to wreck our union.
Support the workplace leaders who are reuniting our union. These candidates must now reinforce the important work of the ‘31’ – the majority of the current Executive Council which has fought back against attempts to strangle our union’s democracy and obstruct scrutiny of our union’s finances.
Reunite calls on every member and rep, in every branch and workplace to join this movement.
2026 is the year we save our union.
It’s time to Reunite the Union
Candidates endorsed by Reunite
Debbie Dempsey – Automotive
Craig McDonald – Automotive
Mark Porter - Aerospace and Shipbuilding
Kyle Robinson - Aerospace and Shipbuilding
Cliff Bowen – Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Process & Textiles
Kingsley Abrams – Community, Youth Workers and Not for Profit
Richard Crease – Docks, Ferries, Rail and Waterways
Ken Drury – Education
Mark Jones – Energy and Utilities
Martin Foster – Engineering, Manufacturing & Steel
Matt Gould – Food, Drink and Agriculture
Monique Mosley - Food, Drink and Agriculture
Beth Wells – Finance & Legal
Tom Murphy – Graphical Paper Media & Information Technology
Ian Evans – Health
Ucheoma Ugoji - Health
Mark Boothroyd - Health
Brian Robertson – Local Authorities
Clare Rudge – Local Authorities
Paul Ainsworth – Passenger Transport
Patrica Davis – Passenger Transport
Wayne Simmons - Civil Air Transport
Davy McCord - Road Transport Commercial, Logistics & Warehousing
Andy Prickett - Road Transport Commercial, Logistics & Warehousing
Thomas Glavin – Construction
Stuart Grice – Construction
Keith Wilmer - Government, Defence, Prisons & Contractors
Anne Marie Toal - Services
Daniel Friel - Services
Equalities:
Mohammed Ajaz – Black and Asian Ethnic Minorities
Dean Collins – Disabled members
Lottie Mannion – LGBT+
Trevor Vaughan – Retired members
Tricia James - Women
Nick Troy - Young Members
Regional:
Dawn Borthwick – East Midlands
Raffiq Moosa – East Midlands
Marie Casey - Ireland
Paula Brennan – London & Eastern
Mark Dunne – London & Eastern
Owen Scarlett-Gilpin – London & Eastern
Getaneh Tesfaye - London & Eastern
Michelle Smith – North East, Yorkshire and Humber
Richard Wileman - North East, Yorkshire and Humber
Sarah Mountaine – North West
Chris Neville – North West
Stephen Payne - Scotland
Sylvia Stewart - Scotland
David Elson – South East
Polly Richardson – South East
Andy Murray - South West
Kait Duerden - Wales
David Imre – Wales
Jackie Goode – West Midlands
Ryan Hodgson – West Midlands
Patrick Russell – West Midlands
