Keith Hatch

Keith Hatch has been a member of Unite, and its legacy unions, since he was an apprentice workshop technician at Imperial College in 1985. As well as his day job designing and manufacturing prototype equipment for labs and research, Keith held union roles as a health and safety rep and branch membership secretary.

Originally from Lambeth, Keith moved to Dorset in 2002 and not long after, started writing for Unite’s Landworker magazine, as well as helping organise the Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival.

In addition to writing for Unite, Keith also ran an environmental campaign across the South West, coordinated volunteers at a local museum, ran the bar at the local arts centre and worked as a youth worker, until settling down as a green workplaces project officer with the South West TUC.

This led to work with unionlearn, first as a union support officer, and then as project campaigns support officer running unionlearn’s comms and social media.

When the Tory government axed funding for the Union Learning Fund, Keith started working as a Unite trade union tutor through City of Bristol College, while continuing to write for Landworker

In 2024, he was given an offer he couldn’t refuse and began focusing solely on writing for Landworker, BuildingWORKER and UNITElive.

Keith is a member of the Unite Tolpuddle branch, and in his spare time enjoys live music, festivals, walking and following non-league football clubs in the backwaters of the football pyramid.