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THE Co-op’s reduced opening hours over the festive period are a step in the right direction for workers, retail union Usdaw said yesterday.
The retailer announced on Monday that its shops will be closing earlier on Christmas Eve and operating with reduced hours on Boxing Day.
Bosses said that shops on both December 26 and New Year’s Day will be staffed entirely by those employees who do not mind working during the holidays.
ROGER McKENZIE calls for greater support from trade unionists and the general public for female workers involved in industrial disputes
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
