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A worker dresses a mannequin in a shop window
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady praised the determined work of Usdaw reps over the last year in her address to the shopworkers’ union’s annual conference on Sunday.
She addressed more than 600 delegates on the opening day of Usdaw’s first-ever online conference, which concluded yesterday.
Ms O’Grady said that the crisis had taken a terrible toll on all key workers but that Usdaw’s response had shown the power of the trade union movement.
Working-class women lead the fight for fair work and equitable pay and against sexual harassment, the rise of the far right and years of failed austerity policies, writes ROZ FOYER
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
