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ADM
Agency Workers
Campaign Supporting Parents and Carers
Campaign Freedom From Fear
Campaign Minimum Wage
Campaign Save our Sundays
Campaign Scots CDNYD Trading
Campaigns
Education
Lifelong Learning
Pay
Politics
Rights at Work
Sunday working
Youth

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ADM

Gordon Brown praises Usdaw for lead on work life balance gains for shopworkers 24 April 2007
Usdaw says Blair not Cameron is shopworkers champion 24 April 2007

Agency Workers

Fair deal for agency workers 19 November 2009

Campaign Supporting Parents and Carers

Deputy Mayor and MP visit Three Lane Ends Primary to meet school councillors 20 October 2005
Minister for equalities backs Usdaw’s parents and carers 27 September 2005
More than 100 MPs back Usdaw campaign to scrap earning limits for carers 23 June 2006
School Councillors quiz Deputy Mayor and MP about more rights for mums and dads 28 October 2005
Tory Claims on Flexible Working are Ridiculous says Usdaw 09 November 2007
Usdaw General Secretary calls for more support for working carers 25 September 2007
Usdaw says parliamentary launch of national campaign to scrap earnings limit for carers was a huge success 16 June 2006
Usdaw says remove financial ‘ball and chain’ from retail workers who care for others 12 June 2006
Usdaw welcomes more paid paternity leave for new dads 20 October 2005

Campaign Freedom From Fear

Home Office Minister visits Co-op with its own police station to launch Usdaws Its your Store Respect it campaign 12 July 2007
Home Secretary asked to support campaign against shop violence 26 September 2007
MPs back Usdaws Its Your Store Respect It campaign 10 July 2007
New figures prove that shoplifting is not a victimless crime 08 January 2010
One in 10 shopworkers physically assaulted 02 November 2009
Retail crime falls but Usdaw reaffirms that abuse is not part of the job 12 October 2006
Shopworkers’ union calls for united front to tackle retail violence 24 February 2010
Tougher penalties for assaulting shopworkers 18 January 2010
Usdaw United to give verbal abuse a red card as half a million shopworkers are abused every working day 10 July 2006

Campaign Minimum Wage

Extended minimum wage is good news – Usdaw 31 July 2008
Minimum Wage bill on hold 19 May 2009
TUC supports national minimum wage 16 September 2009
Tory bill to kill minimum wage goes ahead 11 June 2009
Usdaw celebrates ten years of minimum wage 31 March 2009
Usdaw welcomes crackdown on rogue employers who fail to pay the minimum wage 09 January 2007

Campaign Save our Sundays

Retail staff will come under ‘intense pressure’ to work on Sundays if shopping hours are extended 13 April 2006
Usdaw delighted as over 300 MPs say 'no' to extending Sunday trading hours 26 May 2006
Usdaw kids tell Trade Ministers extending Sunday opening hours will ruin shopworkers’ family life 12 April 2006
Usdaw lobbyists say extending Sunday shopping hours would be 'bad news' for shopworkers' families 09 May 2006
Usdaw welcomes Trade Minister’s clear commitment to Parliamentary vote on extending Sunday shopping Hours 01 May 2006

Campaign Scots CDNYD Trading

Scottish Labour Party backs for bill banning stores from opening on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day 29 November 2006
Scottish shopworkers say NO to big stores opening on Christmas and New Year’s Day 31 July 2006
Usdaw Santas drop into Scottish Parliament to launch bill to stop big stores opening on Xmas Day and New Year's Day 22 March 2006
Usdaw calls on SNP to back bill to keep Hogmanay special 14 November 2006
Usdaw delighted as bill banning stores from opening on Christmas Day and New Years Day passes second stage at Holyrood 17 January 2007
Usdaw invite MSPs to early Hogmanay Party at Holyrood 13 November 2006
Usdaw members across Scotland delighted as they get early Christmas present 23 November 2006
Usdaw members lobby MSPs to keep Christmas Day and New Year’s Day special 09 November 2006
Usdaw sends Santa hit squad to target Scottish Parliament to stop Xmas Day opening 13 December 2005
Usdaw welcomes MSPs’ report backing festive shutdown for large stores 14 November 2006
Usdaws Scottish members celebrate as bill banning stores opening on Xmas Day receives Royal Assent 16 April 2007

Campaigns

Redundancy Bill passes second reading 13 March 2009
Usdaw supports March for Jobs, Justice and Climate 26 February 2009

Education

MPs back Usdaw campaign to keep ESOL lessons free for migrant workers 13 December 2006

Lifelong Learning

100 MPs back Usdaw fight to keep ESOL courses free for migrant workers 15 January 2007

Pay

Minimum wage increase 12 May 2009
Usdaw says National Minimum Wage increase is good news for the retail sector 22 September 2006
Usdaw says unionised retail workers are much better paid 22 September 2006
Usdaw warmly welcomes rise in minimum wage 20 March 2006

Politics

Budget is just the job – Usdaw 22 April 2009
John Hannett welcomes Blair speech as getting back to the real business of running the country 26 September 2006
MPs discover shopworkers’ dilemmas 15 October 2009
Tories plan to scrap Minimum Wage is cause for Wage Concern 08 May 2009
Usdaw backing Labour as best for Britain 15 September 2009
Usdaw backs Chancellors scheme to get jobless back to work in retail 22 March 2007
Usdaw calls on MPs to support the Redundancy Bill 04 March 2009
Usdaw delighted at Brown’s vision for future 23 September 2008
Usdaw delighted at £10 a month tax break 14 May 2008
Usdaw endorses Gordon Brown for Labour Leader and nominates Hazel Blears to be his Deputy 22 May 2007
Usdaw hails vote-winning policies won at Warwick 28 July 2008
Usdaw launches new national anti BNP leaflet in Blackpool 25 April 2007
Usdaw praises Gordon Brown speech 24 September 2007
Usdaw supports new retail crime crackdown 16 March 2009
Usdaw welcomes Prime Minister's clear commitment to include the Labour Party in his Government's 'direction of travel' 16 March 2006
Usdaw welcomes plans to scrap blacklists 08 July 2009
Usdaw will join Labour’s fight for Britain 29 September 2009

Rights at Work

Retail jobs are proper jobs 29 September 2009
Usdaw calls on Labour for better redundancy rights 28 September 2009

Sunday working

MPs from all parties give massive thumbs down to any extension of Sunday trading hours 26 January 2006
MPs from all parties rush to sign Early Day Motion opposing shops opening longer on Sundays 14 December 2005
Shopworkers vote overwhelmingly against more Sunday trading hours as DTI launches consultation 19 January 2006
Usdaw General Secretary says meeting with PM over Sunday opening hours was very useful 24 May 2006
Usdaw celebrates as 218 MPs sign up to Early Day Motion opposing extending Sunday shopping hours 20 March 2006
Usdaw claims victory for shopworkers in Sunday hours battle 06 July 2006
Usdaw members launch campaign in Bridgwater against extending Sunday shopping hours 01 June 2006
Usdaw members say extending Sunday shopping hours will have a catastrophic impact on their family lives 26 June 2006
Usdaw seeks MPs support for campaign to stop extension of Sunday shopping hours 24 November 2005
Usdaw warmly welcomes Prime Minister's commitment to 'listen' to union's case against more Sunday shopping hours 02 May 2006

Youth

Survey of apprentice pay 27 August 2009

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