Labour’s first steps for change:
- Deliver economic stability with tough spending rules, so we can grow our economy and keep taxes, inflation and mortgages as low as possible.
- Cut NHS waiting times with 40,000 more evening and weekend appointments each week, paid for by cracking down on tax avoidance and non-doms.
- Launch a new Border Security Command with hundreds of new specialist investigators and counter-terror powers to smash criminal gangs and strengthen our borders.
- Set up Great British Energy, a publicly owned clean power company, to cut bills for good and boost energy security, paid for by a windfall tax on oil and gas giants.
- Crack down on antisocial behaviour, with more neighbourhood police paid for by ending wasteful contracts, tough new penalties for offenders, and a new network of youth hubs.
- Recruit 6,500 new teachers in key subjects to set children up for life, work and the future, paid for by ending tax breaks for private schools.
Paddy Lillis - Usdaw General Secretary says: “The country is crying out for change after 14 years of Tory chaos, austerity, along with attacks on workers’ rights and trade unions. Labour’s five missions and Keir Starmer’s first six steps in government show that only Labour has a plan to deliver the change our members and all workers desperately need. Put alongside Labour’s new deal for working people and their high street plan, we have a substantial offer for the general election.
“It is only the Labour Party that will deliver the new deal for working people, strengthening rights at work, making work pay and making work fairer. Labour will tackle workplace discrimination, put mental health on a par with physical health and tackle the retail sector crisis. It is a new deal that tackles insecure employment and makes sure work provides the dignity of decent pay.
“Labour show that only they in government will deliver the much needed and long overdue help the retail industry needs. Action on business rates, tackling retail crime and a new deal for working people are at the top of our list of priorities. Only by working together can we help to deliver the better jobs retail workers need and deserve, while securing the future viability of the industry for the benefit of workers, customers, communities and our economy.
“Labour’s agenda for our members will tackle violence, threats and abuse, make the economy work for working people and deliver fairness in the workplace. After 14 years of austerity and a cost of living crisis, it is clear that only Labour has the plan for change that our members so desperately need.”
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 first steps for change: https://labour.org.uk/updates/stories/labours-first-steps-for-change/
Labour’s 5-point plan to breathe life into Britain’s high streets: https://labour.org.uk/updates/stories/plan-to-breathe-life-into-britains-high-streets/
Labour’s new deal for working people: https://labour.org.uk/updates/stories/a-new-deal-for-working-people/
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