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Mental Health Awareness Week: Usdaw highlights the role trade unions can play in bringing people together
09 May 2022
Retail trade union Usdaw is marking Mental Health Awareness Week by promoting the role of trade union workplace reps in supporting members, highlighting the benefits of talking about mental health at work and campaigning for improved workplace rights. Mental Health Awareness Week runs from 9 to 15 May and this year’s theme is focussed on the mental health impact of loneliness
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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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TUC Black Workers' Conference: Usdaw supports a call to end the ethnicity pay gap and welcomes the work of the TUC Anti-Racism Taskforce
06 May 2022
Retail trade union Usdaw has a delegation of members attending the annual TUC Black Workers’ Conference today and over this weekend, which takes place online. Usdaw is backing a call to end the ethnicity pay gap and welcomes the work of the TUC Anti-Racism Taskforce.
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Retail employers combine with Usdaw to lobby the Chancellor for lower business rates funded by an online sales tax
06 May 2022
Retail trade union Usdaw has joined forces with major retailers including Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons and Coop, along with retail representative bodies, by writing to the Chancellor of the Exchequer calling on him to cut the ‘Shops Tax’.
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Today is polling day - Usdaw asks members to vote Labour
05 May 2022
Retail trade union Usdaw is asking members to use their vote in today’s local elections to support Labour candidates who will deliver on our campaign goals to tackle the cost of living crisis and provide the essential local services that so many low-paid workers and their families rely on.
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Cost of living crisis: Usdaw delegates support a campaign plan to help workers who are struggling to make ends meet
04 May 2022
Usdaw’s Annual delegate meeting has today debated the growing cost of living crisis, which is severely impacting low-paid workers. Delegates backed a campaign plan to call for urgent Government action.
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Orgreave truth and justice campaign and the call for a public inquiry is backed by Usdaw delegates
04 May 2022
Usdaw’s Annual Delegate Meeting at Blackpool’s Winter Gardens has today backed the call for a public inquiry into the events at Orgreave during the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike.
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Usdaw delegates back a plan to tackle the housing crisis
04 May 2022
Usdaw’s Annual Delegate Meeting in Blackpool’s Winter Gardens has today debated the current housing crisis and agreed a plan to tackle it.
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Health and safety: Usdaw delegates call for better workplace security, EU safety laws to be retained and pandemic lessons to be learnt
03 May 2022
Usdaw’s Annual Delegate Meeting at Blackpool’s Winter Gardens has today supported calls for employers to do more on security in stores, the retention of safety standards that were guaranteed by EU law, along with the Government and employers learning the lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Save our Shops: Usdaw delegates back business rates reform and a review of parking charges in town and city centres
03 May 2022
Usdaw’s Annual delegate Meeting at Blackpool’s Winter gardens have today backed a call for the reform of business rates and a review of parking charges, both of which are damaging high street retailers in their battle against online competitors.