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A PAY offer of £9.50 per hour from retailer Sainsbury’s and its Argos subsidiary falls short of key workers’ demands for decent basic pay, their union said today.
Usdaw, which represents around 40,000 workers at the two stores, expressed disappointment that the group had not yet followed the example of Morrisons, which agreed a £10 minimum for all staff last month under the union’s New Deal campaign.
Sainsbury’s, which has been booming during the pandemic, today spun its £9.50 offer coupled with a one-off 3 per cent bonus as generous — boasting that it had “handed out” more than £100 million in bonuses to workers since the crisis began.
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Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
