Paddy Lillis - Usdaw General Secretary says: “We welcome that Vaughan Gething has been elected to lead the Welsh Labour Party and look forward to working with him to improve the lives of workers in Wales and deliver for our members. We also pay tribute to Jeremy Miles for running a strong leadership campaign and Mark Drakeford for his service to Wales as First Minister since 2018.
 
“Usdaw members, their families and working people across Wales need a strong Labour Party in the Senedd and across the country, speaking out for them on their issues of concern. The Welsh Labour Government has provided an important counterbalance to 14 years of Tory austerity and attacks on workers across the UK.”
 
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Usdaw (Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers) is one of the fastest growing unions in the TUC and the UK's fifth biggest trade union with around 360,000 members. Most Usdaw members work in the retail sector, but the union also has many members in transport, distribution, food manufacturing, chemical industry and other trades www.usdaw.org.uk
 
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