Gail Cartmail blog

An appeal to mothers and daughters

The Guardian today published a letter from me and my daughter Eleni that laments the lack of progress on narrowing the gender pay gap. Our letter is an appeal to other mothers and daughters attending the LibDem conference to wake up to the awful consequence to women of the coalition’s austerity measures already in place with worse to come.

My daughter and I have a letter in the Guardian

My daughter, who is 17, will be 74 before she earns equal pay, if things carry on as they are. I wanted this brought to the attention of Liberal Democrats who are gathering in Liverpool for their conference. If they continue with the cuts, our fight for equal pay will be set back for decades. So Eleni and I wrote to the Guardian along those lines and I'm pleased to say it has been printed. 

With thanks to the independent and brave

Thanks to you, my campaign ‘Together to Win’ has crossed the nomination line (which required 50 branches/chapels or workplaces  to back me) and I am now guaranteed a place on the ballot paper in the election of Unite’s first general secretary.

This is only possible because independent minded branch/chapel/ workplace leaders and members were courageous enough to resist the ‘business as usual’ and ‘tit for tat’ politics of such elections.

The "edgy" candidate who's going for the top job in Unite

Society Guardian has published an interview with me today about my bid for the leadership of the union.

I acknowledge how difficult it is to get on the ballot paper (I need 50 nominations) but, as I say in the interview, I have everything to play for and even more to offer the union if I were to succeed in my bid. 

Read the article here and let me know what you think of it - I'd be very pleased to hear your comments.