The event is at 6.30pm tonight (13 February) with Usdaw’s Paddy Lillis, Labour’s Shadow Employment Minister Justin Madders MP, the TUC’s Kate Bell, Labour PPC Helena Dollimore and LabourList’s Tom Belger. Tickets available at:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/heartunions-week-what-does-labours-new-deal-mean-for-working-people-tickets-823892142577?aff=oddtdtcreator
Paddy Lillis – Usdaw General Secretary says: “Workplace rights are set to be one of the key battlegrounds at the next general election. This week is the TUC’s heart unions week, the ideal time to highlight how Labour and the affiliated unions, working together, have devised some of the positive workplace changes planned if Labour secures a victory at the election.
“Unions like Usdaw have been a driving force behind Labour’s
new deal. Improving the working lives of our members is what unions are here for. Our unique connection with the Labour Party allows us to use our hard-won industrial knowledge and experience to secure positive policy changes for working people. Far too many people in Britain are getting a raw deal at the moment, feeling the effects of insecure work.
“The new deal will introduce vital, practical changes that add up into happier, healthier and more productive workplaces for the working people of Britain. For Usdaw and our members, the next year will be crucial. Working people and their families are at breaking point and desperately need the glint of hope that is being offered by Labour.”
Notes for editors:
Usdaw (Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers) is one of the fastest growing unions in the TUC and the UK's fifth biggest trade union with around 360,000 members. Most Usdaw members work in the retail sector, but the union also has many members in transport, distribution, food manufacturing, chemical industry and other trades
www.usdaw.org.uk
Labour’s New Deal for Working people: https://labour.org.uk/updates/stories/a-new-deal-for-working-people
LabourList: ‘Here’s what Labour’s broad, ambitious New Deal means for working people’ https://labourlist.org/2024/02/usdaw-heart-unions-week-labour-new-deal-for-working-people-paddy-lillis
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