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Dairy Home delivery Home Shopping Production and Manufacturing Retail Food Retail Non-food Transport Warehouse and Distribution Displaying results 21 - 60 (of 130) | Show: 10 | 20 | 50 | All prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 next Government’s rejection of an online sales tax shows they have failed to understand the devastation on our high streets says Usdaw 06 December 2022 Retail trade union Usdaw is calling on the Government to reverse their rejection of an Online Sales Tax, after BBC research lays bare the scale of the devastation our high streets have suffered. Usdaw has long called for this measure to help rebalance taxation between online and in-store retail and was supported by many retail businesses. Government rejects an Online Sales Tax - Budget measures on business rates are only a sticking plaster says Usdaw 17 November 2022 Retail trade union Usdaw is deeply disappointed that the Government has today rejected an Online Sales Tax, which would help rebalance taxation between online and in-store retail and was supported by many retail businesses. Save our shops by levelling the playing field with an online sales tax says Usdaw, as retailers face huge business rates increases 19 October 2022 Retail trade union Usdaw is again calling on the Government to introduce an online sales tax, which would rebalance the taxation of the retail sector between online and in-store retail, as high street firms across England are facing a £2.7 billion tax surge next year after inflation jumped further, with £800 million falling on retailers. Rachel Reeves' pledges to make the minimum wage a genuine living wage and revive our high streets welcomed by Usdaw 26 September 2022 Retail trade union Usdaw has welcomed today’s address to Labour’s annual conference by Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves MP; including commitments to reform the minimum wage to take account of the cost of living, along with reviving our high streets. A new vision to secure a bright future for the Welsh retail industry welcomed by Usdaw 17 June 2022 Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw has welcomed a new vision to revitalise Wales’ retail sector launched by the Welsh Government that could lead to better pay and conditions, greater job security, improving career progression and a commitment to creating a skilled future workforce. Save our shops by levelling the playing field with an online sales tax says Usdaw 20 May 2022 Retail trade union Usdaw has today responded to a Government consultation on the introduction of an online sales tax as a means to rebalance the taxation of the retail sector between online and in-store retail. Queen's Speech: Government continues to fiddle around the edges of a crisis on our high streets says Usdaw 10 May 2022 Retail trade union Usdaw has reacted with disappointment at the small measures proposed by the Government in the face of a long-running crisis in the retail industry. The union, along with many major retailers had called for fundamental reform of business rates funded by an online sales tax. Retail employers combine with Usdaw to lobby the Chancellor for lower business rates funded by an online sales tax 06 May 2022 Retail trade union Usdaw has joined forces with major retailers including Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons and Coop, along with retail representative bodies, by writing to the Chancellor of the Exchequer calling on him to cut the ‘Shops Tax’. Save our Shops: Usdaw delegates back business rates reform and a review of parking charges in town and city centres 03 May 2022 Usdaw’s Annual delegate Meeting at Blackpool’s Winter gardens have today backed a call for the reform of business rates and a review of parking charges, both of which are damaging high street retailers in their battle against online competitors. Welsh Labour Conference 2022: Usdaw calls for a retail recovery plan to help save our shops 11 March 2022 Retail trade union Usdaw has a delegation of members and officials attending the Welsh Labour Conference in Llandudno this weekend. Usdaw will be raising its deep concern at the growing crisis facing the retail sector in Wales. Centre for Cities ‘Will Covid-19 kill the high street?’ report should be a wakeup call for the Government says Usdaw 25 January 2022 Retail trade union Usdaw has again urged the Government to act to save our shops, after an independent think tank report finds that the pandemic has had a major impact on town and city centres. Select Committee report and recommendations on high streets, including an online sales tax, welcomed by Usdaw 10 December 2021 Retail trade union Usdaw has welcomed today’s select committee report that urges the Government to immediately conduct a full ‘lessons learned’ review on the impact on high streets of central and local government handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. 86% of Arcadia stores remain empty - Usdaw says that clearly shows we need a retail recovery plan 01 December 2021 Retail trade union Usdaw has renewed the call for a recovery plan for the industry, after the Local Data Company found that around 86% of Arcadia group shop sites are still vacant. That includes former Topshop, Topman, Burton and Dorothy Perkins stores, which closed after the company collapsed. Usdaw joins industry bodies to call for a business rates discount for retailers from the Scottish Government 15 November 2021 Retail trade union Usdaw is one of thirteen leading industry bodies that have jointly written to the Scottish Finance Secretary asking her to introduce a business rates discount for all retail premises for the coming financial year. Labour-led parliamentary debates on business rates and the future of the high street welcomed by Usdaw 18 October 2021 Retail trade union Usdaw has welcomed Labour raising the issue of continued delay in reforming business rates and the future of high streets in two debates to be held in Parliament on Tuesday 19 October: Autumn Budget 2021: Usdaw calls for Government action on the retail crisis, incomes, job security and skills 04 October 2021 Retail trade union Usdaw has called on the Chancellor to use his Budget and Comprehensive Spending Review on 27 October to take substantial action to help save jobs in a struggling retail sector, avert the looming cost of living crisis and provide job security in light of the new technology revolution. Labour's plan to rebalance business taxes will help to save our shops says Usdaw 27 September 2021 Retail trade union Usdaw has welcomed Rachel Reeves announcement to reform business rates to help our high streets, funded by increasing the digital services tax on large online providers. Labour will level the playing field for British businesses by cutting and eventually scrapping business rates, replacing them with a new, modern system of business taxation fit for the 21st century. Save our shops! Usdaw calls on the next Labour Government to deliver a retail recovery plan 26 September 2021 Retail trade union Usdaw has today called on the next Labour Government to tackle the growing crisis in retail, an industry already struggling before Covid-19 and has been severely impacted by the pandemic. Continuing growth of empty shops further demonstrates the need for an industrial strategy for retail says Usdaw 30 July 2021 Retail trade union Usdaw has expressed deep concern about the latest British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Local Data Company (LDC) shop vacancy monitor. The figures reveal that the vacancy rate across the country increased to 14.5% in the last quarter from 14.1%, with one-in-five shopping centre units now sitting empty. PM’s so-called ‘levelling up’ falls way short of the much needed and long overdue industrial strategy for retail to help save our shops 15 July 2021 Retail trade union Usdaw is disappointed with the Government’s high street strategy, launched today as part of the Prime Minister’s ‘levelling up’ speech, which doesn’t deliver the industrial strategy that the union was campaigning for before the pandemic or the now much needed recovery plan to help save our shops. Displaying results 21 - 60 (of 130) | Show: 10 | 20 | 50 | All prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 next
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