At No 16 and dropping it’s Bob Crowe’s Rail & Maritime Transport union with £248,000. At No. 14 it’s the electricians and engineers AEEU with £320,000, nipping the heels of construction workers’ UCATT at No 13 with £354,000.

THE TOP 10

At No 9 it’s print union GPMU with £544,000 donated to the Labour Party. Shopworkers’ USDAW is at No 7 with £2.1 million just behind the posties’ CWU at No 6 with £2.3 million, Transport & General Workers at No 5 with £2.5 million, general workers union GMB at No 4 with £3.5 million and at No 3, despite massive spending cuts and privatisation, its public service workers’ UNISON with £3.6 million of their low-paid members’ money. Lord Sainsbury holds on to the top spot but at No 2, with a whopping £3.8 million taken from its members wages, it’s financial and manufacturing workers’ union Amicus. Now that Amicus and the AEEU have merged we can no doubt look forward to even vaster donations to the Labour Party’s coffers.

That’s nearly £20,000,000 taken from trades unionists’ wages and gifted by just11 unions to New Labour. Many more unions also donate to the Labour Party. This is YOUR money.

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