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BOSSES’ “salami slicing” of Marks and Spencer is causing huge distress to workers, retail union Usdaw said yesterday as the high street chain announced 14 more store closures.
The company proposes to shut stores in Andover, Basildon, Bridlington, Denton, Falmouth, Fareham, Keighley and Stockport, threatening the loss of 468 jobs.
Another six shops, in Birkenhead, Bournemouth, Durham, Fforestfach, Putney and Redditch, will close by the end of April . M&S said staff at these branches would be redeployed to nearby stores.
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
