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MORE than 10,000 people have backed Labour MP Richard Burgon’s call for furloughed workers to be paid at least the National Minimum Wage.
The Leeds East MP’s petition supports adding a minimum wage floor to the government’s coronavirus furlough scheme.
The government pays furloughed workers 80 per cent of their usual wage, but employers are not obliged to pay the other 20 per cent.
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
