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SHOPWORKERS must “stand up to the companies we work for” and fight to end zero-hour contracts, newly elected Usdaw president Amy Murphy said yesterday.
Tesco worker Ms Murphy said she would “continue to challenge the union leadership and the bosses” as the shopworkers’ union’s most senior lay official.
Ms Murphy, who has served on the Usdaw executive for six years, is a member of the Socialist Party and the union’s Broad Left faction. She was seen as to the left of her opponent Barbara Wilson.
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