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SHOP workers lobbied Leeds City Council yesterday over plans to change the way supermarkets’ Sunday opening hours are controlled.
The government plans to pass decision-making powers over the operating of Sunday opening hours to local authorities.
Supermarkets can open for only six hours a day on Sunday at present, but if local authorities take over responsibility councillors could allow longer opening.
Megapicket to shut down Birmingham’s refuse sites
LOTTE COLLETT welcomes the arrival of a new party for the left, a vehicle for councils to finally fight for progressive policies on housing, green spaces and public facilities, rather than administering cuts and misery from central government
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
