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SHOPWORKERS gave evidence to the Low Pay Commission yesterday in order to explain why they cannot exist on minimum wages.
The commission is mounting an evidence-gathering tour investigating the effectiveness of the government’s so-called national living wage (NLW).
The tour’s route goes through Neath, Swansea, Ayr, Kilmarnock, Derry, Hartlepool, Great Yarmouth, Wigan and Manchester.
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street