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WORKERS should be paid the same statutory minimum wage regardless of age, Usdaw activists agreed yesterday.
Young delegates took to the stage at the Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers conference to put the case for equal pay for equal work.
The statutory pay scale currently stands at £6.31 an hour for people 21 years and over, £5.03 for 18 to 20-year-olds and under-18s are on a paltry £3.72.
Working-class women lead the fight for fair work and equitable pay and against sexual harassment, the rise of the far right and years of failed austerity policies, writes ROZ FOYER
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
Tennis icon set to become oldest singles competitor at Flushing Meadows since 1981 after receiving wild-card entry — yet another historic moment in a career already filled with them, writes HOWARD FENDRICH
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street