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Labour would boost low-paid workers’ incomes if it won the election, it insisted yesterday after taking flak from affiliated trade unions.
A party spokesman said that shadow chancellor Ed Balls would “balance the books in a fairer way” if Labour was elected in May.
The statement was issued to the Star after a trio of trade union leaders criticised Labour’s plans for “austerity-lite” during the TUC’s Britain Needs a Pay Rise rally on Saturday.
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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