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LABOUR is considering plans to implement a 35-hour working week by 2030 and end the travesty of workers forced to work long hours to pay bills.
The plans come after recommendations into working hours by cross-bench peer Lord Robert Skidelsky were released in an independent report today.
Mr Skidelsky’s report was based on the premise “that a reduction in hours of necessary work should be a natural and desirable outcome of a progressive society.”
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
