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A Tesco employee collecting trolleys at a Tesco store in Burton On Trent
A QUARTER of retail workers are missing meals because they have to choose between buying food and paying other essential bills, their union said today.
A survey by retail union Usdaw found that 25 per cent of members said they skipped meals so that they could pay other bills.
The shock findings come on top of a report released by Civil Service union PCS that a third of members it surveyed are skipping meals because of their financial situation.
Roger McKenzie talks to general secretary of Unison CHRISTINA McANEA about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on members, the local government funding emergency and the threat of Reform UK
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street