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THE minimum wage should be raised to £10 an hour, young workers demanded yesterday.
A motion proposed by transport union TSSA to the TUC young workers’ conference called for a leapfrog of the £7.85 national living wage and even the £9.15 London rate.
“It’s increasingly hard to live a decent life on the minimum wage,” TSSA delegate Judith Rodgers told the hall.
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
