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Usdaw's young workers campaign comes to Loughborough Vintage Market and focuses on 'time for better pay'
02 April 2019
Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw is bringing their young workers campaign to Loughborough Vintage Market on Friday 5 April between 9am and 3pm. Young Usdaw activists are leading the event, where they will engage with fellow young workers with the union’s Time for Better Pay campaign and Government petition to tackle low pay and job insecurity.
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Usdaw celebrates 20 years of the National Minimum Wage as rates increase today and calls for at least 10 per hour
01 April 2019
Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw is today celebrating 20 years since the first National Minimum Wage came into force on 1 April 1999. While the union welcomes today’s uprating, it is disappointed that the adult rate is now not likely to reach £9 per hour by 2020, as promised. Usdaw continues their ‘time for better pay’ campaign for at least £10 per hour and an end to insecure contracts.
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TUC Young Workers Conference 2019: Usdaw promotes the 'time for better pay' and 'save our shops' campaigns
22 March 2019
Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw is calling on delegates at the TUC Young Workers Conference to support the union’s campaigns ‘time for better pay’ and ‘save our shops’.
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Low Pay Commission takes evidence from workers in Swansea - Usdaw calls for £10 per hour and the adult rate for young workers
21 March 2019
Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw is today meeting with members of the Low Pay Commission (LPC) as they visit Swansea to hear evidence from low-paid workers.
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Chancellor ignores the retail crisis and offers little to low-paid workers - Spring Statement a missed opportunity says Usdaw
13 March 2019
Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw is disappointed that the Chancellor has missed an opportunity, in today’s Spring Statement, to address the deepening crisis in retail and provide substantial help for workers in low-paid insecure work, who are struggling to make ends meet.
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Spring Statement 2019: Usdaw challenges the Chancellor to 'save our shops' and address the squeeze on workers' incomes
12 March 2019
Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw has challenged the Chancellor to deliver on Usdaw ‘save our shops’ and ‘time for better pay’ campaigns in tomorrow’s Spring Statement.
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Usdaw's young workers week focuses on 'time for better pay'
11 March 2019
Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw today launches their young workers week, focussing on the union’s ‘time for better pay’ campaign and Government petition. Young Usdaw activists are leading 50 events across the UK, where they will engage with fellow young workers in a campaign to tackle low pay and job insecurity.
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'Time for better pay' petition passes 25,000 signatures - Usdaw campaign continues
11 March 2019
Usdaw’s ‘time for better pay’ petition on the .gov website has already secured the signatures of over 25,000 people who share the union’s deep concerns about pay and rights of a growing number of workers who find themselves in increasingly insecure employment.
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Scottish Labour Conference: Usdaw says it's 'time for better pay'
08 March 2019
Usdaw’s delegation to Scottish Labour Conference, which starts today in Dundee, will be raising deep concerns about the continued growth of in-work poverty and the Scottish Government’s failure to tackle this issue.
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Usdaw continues the struggle for equality at the TUC Women's Conference
06 March 2019
Today Usdaw delegates are gathering with hundreds of other trade union activists for the TUC Women’s Conference at Congress House to promote equality and fight discrimination.