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17 May 2012
Retail and distribution Union Usdaw is marking International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia by pledging to redouble the Union's efforts to combat discrimination against LGBT workers.
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1 May 2012
Figures released by the Treasury this afternoon reveal that more than 200,000 couples with 449,000 children have lost up to £73 a week in Working Tax Credit because they have been unable to increase the number of hours they work.
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23 April 2012
Delegates at Usdaw's Annual Delegate Meeting (ADM) have pledged their support for Remploy workers and condemned the Tory-led Coalition's decision to close 36 Remploy factories.
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21 March 2012
Usdaw activists will be out in force today campaigning to alert parents and carers to the changes the Government is making to tax credits and other benefits.
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14 March 2012
The shopworkers' Union Usdaw says today's rise in unemployment shows why this is the wrong time for the Government to make changes to Working Tax Credits.
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8 March 2012
The UK's fourth biggest Union Usdaw has today revealed that one in seven of its women members have safety concerns about their journeys to and from work.
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7 March 2012
Labour leader Ed Miliband used today's Prime Minister's Questions to challenge David Cameron to say what advice he would give to the thousands of couples on low incomes who will lose nearly £4,000 when cuts to Working Tax Credits are introduced in April.
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6 March 2012
A group of national family welfare organisations and the shopworkers Union, Usdaw, has written to the Prime Minster and Chancellor asking them to meet with working families who stand to lose close to £4,000 next month when rules change for tax credits.
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5 March 2012
A group of organisations including Usdaw, Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), Citizens Advice, Carers UK and a number of family and children's charities has today published an open letter to the Prime Minister calling on him to postpone the change to...
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29 November 2011
The shopworkers' Union Usdaw has slammed George Osborne's decision to abandon the increase in Child Tax Credit and to freeze all the major elements of Working Tax Credit.