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SHOPWORKERS’ union Usdaw has backed closing large shops on New Year’s Day in its submission to a Scottish government consultation on the matter.
The union submitted its response after a survey of members found overwhelming support for closures on the holiday.
In a poll of 1,500 of its Scottish members, Usdaw found that 99 per cent agreed that stores should close on New Year’s Day and that 79 per cent were not happy to work on that day or January 2.
EDDIE DEMPSEY explains why the RMT is calling for urgent action against assaults on staff and passengers on our public transport system
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