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Autumn Budget fails to address the retail crisis and the rising cost of living
27 October 2021
Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw expressed disappointment that today’s Budget fails to provide help for the struggling retail sector and avert the looming cost of living crisis.
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Minimum wage increase fails to deliver £10 per hour or an end to rip-off youth rates
25 October 2021
Shopworkers’ trade union leader Paddy Lillis has expressed disappointment that the Government has not listened to Usdaw’s detailed evidence for a £10 minimum wage for all workers.
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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.
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Within the first 100 days a Labour Government will deliver on the aims of Usdaw’s New Deal for Workers campaign
25 September 2021
Retail trade union Usdaw has welcomed today’s speech by Angela Rayner to the annual Labour conference in Brighton. Addressing delegates, Labour’s deputy leader committed the next Labour Government to delivering a range of improved rights for working people within the first 100 days of winning power.
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Minimum wage increase is not enough and Universal Credit uplift should have been made permanent says Usdaw
25 November 2020
Retail trade union Usdaw is disappointed that low paid workers will not get the full minimum wage increase they were promised. The increase of 19p to £8.91 an hour doesn’t meet the union’s call for £10 per hour, the real living wage rate of £9.50 or even the Government’s previously projected rate of £9.21.
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Angela Rayner's commitment to fighting any attempt to freeze minimum wage rates welcomed by Usdaw
20 September 2020
Retail trade union Usdaw has welcomed today’s keynote address to Labour Connected by Angela Rayner, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, where she hailed the efforts of millions of low-paid key workers who kept the country safe, fed and connected and went on to commit the Party to fighting any attempt to freeze minimum wage rates.
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Congress 2020: Keir Starmer backs Usdaw’s call for government support to save retail jobs – ‘we can’t go back to business as usual’
15 September 2020
Shop workers’ trade union Usdaw has welcomed Keir Starmer’s backing for targeted government support to help struggling sectors like retail, so that we can save jobs, keep shops open and help struggling high streets.
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Congress 2020: Usdaw calls for a new deal for workers and a retail recovery plan to save jobs, shops and our struggling high streets
15 September 2020
Shop worker’s trade union Usdaw has today called on the Government to work with trade unions and employers on a retail recovery plan to save an industry struggling through the pandemic. The union also called for a new deal for working people based on a living wage and secure employment.
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The very least key workers deserve is a pay rise says Usdaw
08 September 2020
Retail trade union Usdaw is angered by reports that Government ministers and the Low Pay Commission are reported to be suggesting that a minimum wage increase next April could be shelved, claiming it is unaffordable.
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Minimum wage of at least £10 and an end to rip-off youth rates - Usdaw gives evidence to the Low Pay Commission
16 July 2020
Retail trade union Usdaw is today giving oral evidence to the Low Pay Commission
on minimum wage rates, ahead of them making recommendations to the
Government about National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage rates to be introduced on 1 April 2021.