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1 in 4 food retail workers skipping meals to pay bills – Usdaw calls for a new deal and action on the cost of living crisis
18 June 2022
Retail trade union Usdaw has today released a finding from their most recent cost of living survey of over 5,500 members who are mainly essential workers in the food retail industry.
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New deal for working people - Usdaw supports the TUC march and rally
17 June 2022
Members, reps, activists and officials from the shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw will be joining the TUC march on Saturday 18 June through London to demand a new deal for working people.
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A new vision to secure a bright future for the Welsh retail industry welcomed by Usdaw
17 June 2022
Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw has welcomed a new vision to revitalise Wales’ retail sector launched by the Welsh Government that could lead to better pay and conditions, greater job security, improving career progression and a commitment to creating a skilled future workforce.
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Chancellor's cost of living crisis response goes nowhere near far enough to help workers struggling to make ends meet says Usdaw
26 May 2022
Retail trade union Usdaw has been left unimpressed by the Government’s weak support for workers facing a cost of living crisis, after they were today dragged kicking and screaming into backing Labour’s windfall tax on excessive oil and gas profits.
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Welsh Congress 2022: Usdaw raises the cost of living crisis and protection of retail workers from abuse, threats and violence
24 May 2022
Retail trade union Usdaw has a delegation of reps and officials attending the Biennial Congress of Wales TUC in Venue Cymru, Llandudno from 24 to 26 May. Usdaw is calling for action to tackle the growing cost of living crisis and the significant increase in abuse of retail workers.
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Queen’s Speech: Yet again the Government fails to bring forward an employment bill – Usdaw calls for a New Deal for Workers
10 May 2022
Retail trade union Usdaw has long campaigned for a New Deal for Workers to tackle workplace injustices and help those struggling to make ends meet in the cost of living crisis. This should be delivered in an employment bill, which the Tories promised in their 2019 manifesto and, as reported by the TUC, this promise has been repeated at least 20 times since. It is unacceptable that such a bill is not in the programme of legislation for the coming parliamentary year, as set out in today’s Queen’s Speech.
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Queen's Speech: Usdaw calls for an employment bill and housing bill to help low-paid workers tackle the cost of living crisis
07 May 2022
Retail trade union Usdaw is calling on the Government to use the next parliamentary term to bring forward a long awaited and overdue employment bill, along with a bill to tackle the housing emergency, as key measures to help workers struggling to make ends meet.
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Usdaw backs a minimum wage of at least £12 per hour as step towards £15
01 May 2022
Retail trade union Usdaw has today backed a call for a minimum wage of at least £12 per hour. Delegates voted unanimously in favour at the union’s Annual Delegate Meeting in Blackpool’s Winter Gardens.
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International Workers' Day: Usdaw renews their call for a New Deal for Workers
01 May 2022
Retail trade union Usdaw is marking International Workers’ Day (1 May) by renewing the call for a New Deal for Workers to help those in low-paid insecure employment cope with the growing cost of living crisis, many of whom are key workers.
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With RPI at 9% Usdaw calls on the Chancellor to take immediate steps to tackle the cost of living crisis
22 April 2022
Shopworkers’ trade union leader Paddy Lillis has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer calling on the Government to immediately take the following three key measures to tackle the cost of living crisis: