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THE RMT Young Members conference will launch the transport union’s Apprentice Charter aimed at improving wages, working conditions and training standards for transport apprentices across Britain tomorrow.
The charter lays out demands to ensure apprenticeships are no longer treated as low-paid, insecure and substandard roles.
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: “Apprenticeships should be a gateway to highly skilled, secure jobs, but instead, too many young workers are trapped in low pay, poor training and dead-end contracts.
The election offers a critical chance to shape the future of pay, care and community provision in Wales, says Unison’s JESS TURNER
Working-class women lead the fight for fair work and equitable pay and against sexual harassment, the rise of the far right and years of failed austerity policies, writes ROZ FOYER
Our charter’s demands for fair pay, affordable housing and environmental security will recruit working-class youth into the political struggle for socialism, emulating the success of the Women’s Charter, writes YCL general secretary GEORGINA ANDREWS
