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Paddy Lillis sets out Usdaw's agenda for Labour's Conference - the retail crisis workers' voice and Brexit (of course)
21 September 2019
Shopworkers’ trade union leader Paddy Lillis is leading a delegation of Usdaw members to the annual Labour Party Conference in Brighton. Looking at this year’s gathering, Paddy Lillis - Usdaw General Secretary writes:
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Another blow for Dundee's high street - Usdaw supporting members at Tesco's Murraygate store
17 September 2019
Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw is supporting members working in the Tesco Metro store on Murraygate in Dundee, after the company announced it is set to close because the landlord has decided not to renew the lease.
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'Save our Shops' - Usdaw launches a new petition on the TUC 'Megaphone' site
09 September 2019
Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw has today launched a new ‘Save our Shops’ petition at the Trades Union Congress in Brighton, calling on the Government to take urgent action to tackle the ongoing and deepening crisis in retail.
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Usdaw disappointed that the Chancellor makes no mention of the ongoing retail crisis or Universal Credit
04 September 2019
Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw is disappointed that the Chancellor’s spending review speech did not address many of the key issues affecting our members’ lives such as the ongoing crisis in retail or the deeply damaging rollout of Universal Credit that leaves so many working people worse off.
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Government spending review needs to 'save our shops' and overhaul Universal Credit says Usdaw
03 September 2019
Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw has called on the Chancellor to use tomorrow’s spending review to tackle the ongoing retail crisis by investing in a proper industrial strategy for retail that will help ‘save our shops’; as well as immediately halting the rollout of Universal Credit to allow a fundamental overhaul of the system and a reversal of the deeply damaging cuts that leave so many working people worse-off.
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Labour commitment to empower councils to 'save our shops' is welcomed by Usdaw
16 August 2019
Shopworkers trade union Usdaw has welcomed today’s announcement by Labour to give councils the power to reopen abandoned shops to “revive Britain’s struggling high streets”.
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Usdaw welcomes retailers working together to lobby the Government for business rate reform
13 August 2019
Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw has welcomed a letter to the Chancellor, signed by over 50 retailers calling the Government to fix the "broken" business rates system. The Union’s own Industrial Strategy for Retail calls for the Government to commit to providing a fair, proportionate and modern business rates system that works for all sectors.
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Usdaw's response to Tesco statement
05 August 2019
Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw, who represent over 160,000 Tesco staff, will be immediately entering into collective consultation with the company and is calling for government action to tackle the crisis in retail.
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Government needs to do more to 'save our shops' - Usdaw disappointed with today's response to a parliamentary debate on the retail crisis
10 July 2019
Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw remains disappointed that the Government didn’t offer more help to a retail industry in crisis, provide a clear and coherent strategy to ‘save our shops’ or even offer to meet the union to discuss their Industrial Strategy for Retail.
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Parliament to discuss the crisis on our high streets - Usdaw welcomes the Westminster Hall debate secured by Liz Twist MP
09 July 2019
Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw welcomes a Westminster Hall debate on ‘Developing a retail strategy for the future’ which has been secured by Liz Twist MP (Labour, Blaydon) and will take place tomorrow at 2.30pm, Wednesday 10 July 2019.