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A UNION study revealed today that almost 30,000 retail jobs have been lost in Wales since 2010.
The GMB released the figures as the last Wilko stores closed their doors and called for economic reforms to be made across Britain to save the nation’s high streets.
GMB national secretary Andy Prendergast said: “High street retail is at the heart of our communities, but customers and workers are denied a fair deal.
LUKE FLETCHER outlines Plaid Cymru bold plans for wide-ranging policy consultations with trade unions in Wales
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