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A dog waits outside as people cram into a shop in Edinburgh on Boxing Day 2018
SHOPWORKERS’ union Usdaw launched its “time for better pay” petition today, calling on the government to tackle low wages and insecure work.
The union’s campaign is urging the government to strengthen workers’ rights by introducing a £10 minimum wage for all, normal hours contracts, 16-hour minimum contracts for those who want them and an end to zero-hours contracts.
Usdaw general secretary Paddy Lillis said that “real and urgent improvements” to workers’ rights were needed to “deliver an economy which works in favour of all working people.”
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
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