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Government must offer more than warm words about Arcadia as the high street crisis deepens - Usdaw calls for a retail industrial strategy
11 June 2019
Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw has called on the Government to step up its efforts to tackle the high street crisis as the fate of another major retailer hangs in the balance, along with the jobs of 18,000 staff. Arcadia has been locked in negotiations with landlords as it seeks agreement on company voluntary arrangements, and a further meeting is due tomorrow.
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Save our shops: Two new reports expose the depth of the crisis on our high streets - Usdaw calls for a retail industrial strategy
10 June 2019
Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw calls on the Government to adopt the union’s industrial strategy for retail, which was launched last week in Parliament, after two reports today show that retail footfall is slowing down and consumers fear for the future of the high street.
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Shopworkers' trade union Usdaw launches an industrial strategy to tackle the retail crisis and 'save our shops'
05 June 2019
MPs and leading retail figures are today attending the parliamentary launch of Usdaw’s industrial strategy for retail. The shopworkers’ trade union is proposing detailed and evidence led policies, centred on three key areas:
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Philip Green must engage with Usdaw to give Arcadia staff a voice and avoid another BHS style scandal
22 May 2019
Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group has tonight announced plans to shut 23 stores putting 520 jobs at risk. Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw has called for urgent talks. Dorothy Perkins, Burton, Topshop and Topman stores have been earmarked
for closure as part of a company voluntary arrangement (CVA).
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Debenhams turmoil continues as new owners announce store closures - Usdaw calls for urgent talks and for the staff to be treated with dignity
26 April 2019
Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw has called for urgent talks to give staff a voice in the future of the company, as the new owners confirm 22 store closures after Christmas, putting 1,200 jobs at risk, as part of a 50 store closure plan.
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STUC Conference: Usdaw makes a call to 'save our shops', raises the threat to jobs from automation and says it is 'time for better pay'
15 April 2019
Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw is calling on delegates at the Scottish Trades Union Congress to back the union’s Time for Better Pay campaign, which seeks a minimum wage of at least £10 per hour for all workers and an end to insecure jobs.
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Debenhams is taken over by its lenders putting thousands of jobs at risk
09 April 2019
Debenhams has rejected Mike Ashley’s rescue deal worth £200m because it was conditional on him taking over as the chief executive.
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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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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.