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YOUNG workers at a Sheffield restaurant have won a 44 per cent pay rise after a citywide trade union campaign targeted the company.
The South Yorkshire city’s trades union council (TUC) joined forces with the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) in 2019 to launch the Sheffield Needs a Pay Rise campaign and appointed a full-time organiser for the city.
The campaign targets low-pay employers across Sheffield for union recruitment and wage increases.
Outsourcing is at the heart of inequality. Only collective unity in the trade union movement can topple the Establishment’s obsession with it, says SAM GURNEY
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
