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An energy bill claiming that the customer has defaulted on paying
WORKING people must not “let the Tories off the hook” for largely causing the cost-of-living crisis, members of retail union Usdaw insisted today.
The union’s Gillian Troughton told delegates gathered in Blackpool at Usdaw’s annual conference that the economic impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had only exacerbated the “disgusting” longer-term rise of in-work poverty across the country.
Referring to the “clap for carers” initiative promoted by Downing Street during the first Covid-19 lockdown in the spring of 2020, the Cumbrian member said: “Clapping but not paying us is not good enough.”
We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
Almost half of universities face deficits, merger mania is taking hold, and massive fee hikes that will lock out working-class students are on the horizon, write RUBEN BRETT, PAUL WHITEHOUSE and DAN GRACE