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Save our Shops! Usdaw's campaign hits Gloucester city centre tomorrow

Date: 21 June 2019 Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw is campaigning for the Government to take urgent action to ‘Save Our Shops’. Activists from the union will be joined by Fran Boait (Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate for Gloucester) and engaging with the shopping public to urge them to support the campaign by signing the ‘Save our Shops’ petition.
The event on Saturday 22 June 2019 will run from 11am to 2pm in East Gate Street, in front of The Guild Hall, in Gloucester city centre.
 
Usdaw’s ‘Save Our Shops’ campaign promotes an industrial strategy for retail, which
proposes detailed and evidence led policies, centred on three key areas:
  • Economy and community - changing the economic framework on everything from car parking to rates, rents and reforming the tax system to create a level playing field between online and ‘bricks and mortar’ retailers.
  • People and productivity - improving productivity by addressing low pay and insecure work, while giving staff a say in the future of the business they work for and on the introduction of new technology.
  • Retail jobs are proper jobs - challenging perceptions about retail work and promoting the idea that retail jobs are ‘proper jobs’. Seeking a greater focus from Government on the retail industry and ensuring shopworkers are valued.
Usdaw’s industrial strategy for retail: www.usdaw.org.uk/retailstrategy
 
Rose Houston – Usdaw Area Organiser says: “Like most towns and cities across the country, Gloucester’s retail industry is struggling, with shops closing, retailers folding and businesses engaging in significant restructuring to survive. That impacts the local community, shoppers and staff, so we are in the city centre engaging the public in the ‘Save our Shops’ campaign.
 
“We are delighted to be joined by the local Labour candidate Fran Boait and for her support for Usdaw’s industrial strategy for retail. We need from the Government a clear and coherent strategy for retail, to address the worries and concerns of shopworkers and our members. We hope Usdaw’s retail strategy will be a catalyst for a combined and concerted effort to tackle the growing retail crisis and save our shops.”
 
Fran Boait - Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate for Gloucester says: “I am pleased to support Usdaw's ‘Save our Shops’ campaign. Most weeks we see another shop close down in Gloucester, as our city centre continues to decline. That's why my campaign focusses on rebuilding our city centre, banning zero hours contracts, saving the Kings Square Post Office and introducing a £10 minimum wage.”
 
‘Save our shops’ campaign petition to the Government.
 
Notes for editors:
 
Usdaw (Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers) is the UK's fifth biggest and the fastest growing trade union with over 410,000 members. Membership has increased by more than one-third over the last couple of decades. Most Usdaw members work in the retail sector, but the union also has many members in transport, distribution, food manufacturing, chemicals and other trades.
  
For Usdaw press releases visit: http://www.usdaw.org.uk/news and you can follow us on Twitter @UsdawUnion

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