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TORY plans to obliterate Sunday trading restrictions are a “betrayal” of the British people, Labour conference affirmed yesterday.
Chancellor George Osborne announced proposals to relax laws in this year’s Budget, saying such a move would generate more than £200 million a year in additional sales in the capital.
But moving a motion at Labour Party conference yesterday, shopworkers’ union Usdaw general secretary John Hannett said: “For many retail workers Sunday is the only time you have.
As the labour movement meets to remember the Tolpuddle Martyrs, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef, says it’s an appropriate moment to remind the Labour government to listen to the trade unions a little more
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street