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Dairy Home delivery Home Shopping Production and Manufacturing Retail Food Retail Non-food Transport Warehouse and Distribution Displaying results 81 - 120 (of 195) | Show: 10 | 20 | 50 | All prev 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 next Heart Unions Week: Usdaw’s New Deal for Workers is the best way to tackle the cost of living crisis 13 February 2023 Retail trade union Usdaw is celebrating achievements for members during TUC ‘Heart Unions’ Week (13 – 19 February), highlighting the benefits of being in union membership. Usdaw’s New Deal for Workers campaign was launched with the aim of delivering improved pay and rights for workers. Budget 2023: Usdaw calls for a new deal for workers and a retail recovery plan 06 February 2023 Retail trade union Usdaw has made a formal representation to HM Treasury for measures to be included in the 2023 Spring Budget on 15 March. Another Tory growth plan that fails to recognise the need for a new deal for workers says Usdaw 27 January 2023 Retail trade union Usdaw has described the latest Tory growth plan as disappointing, but not surprising that they fail to recognise the need to deliver a new deal for workers. The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt set out his four pillars of economic growth in a speech at Bloomberg today: enterprise, education, employment and everywhere. ‘Fire and rehire’ should be banned not given a code of practice says Usdaw 25 January 2023 Retail trade union Usdaw has responded to the Government’s proposed code of practice on ‘fire and rehire’ with deep disappointment. ‘Fire and rehire’ refers to when an employer dismisses an employee and offers to re-engage them on a new contract with less-favourable terms. Double-digit inflation continues to devalue wages – Usdaw calls for Government action and a new deal for workers 18 January 2023 Retail trade union Usdaw continues to call for a new deal for workers to help struggling families with the cost of living crisis, because wages are still being devalued by rising prices. Today the Retail Prices Index (RPI) rate of inflation dipped slightly to 13.4% and the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rate to 10.5%. Sainsbury’s and Argos pay boost to £11 per hour is welcomed by Usdaw 04 January 2023 Retail trade union Usdaw has welcomed the company’s additional support for Sainsbury’s and Argos shopworkers in the midst of a cost of living crisis. Inflation rate dip is no comfort for those struggling to make ends meet says Usdaw, we need a new deal for workers 14 December 2022 Retail trade union Usdaw continues to call for a new deal for workers to help struggling families deal with cost of living crisis, because wages are still being devalued by rising prices. Today the Retail Prices Index (RPI) rate of inflation dipped slightly to 14% and the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rate to 10.7%. Three-quarters of low-paid workers cannot afford to take sick leave – an Usdaw survey finds 05 December 2022 Retail trade union Usdaw continues to call for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) reform following the union’s survey finding that 76% of respondents cannot afford to take sick leave, rising to 9 in 10 for those on in-work benefits, because of the cost of living crisis and very low SSP at just £99.35 a week. Usdaw surveyed over 7,500 members, who are mainly low-paid key workers in retail. Paying a lower minimum wage to young workers is unfair – Usdaw calls for an end to rip-off youth rates 02 December 2022 Retail trade union Usdaw again calls for young workers to be paid a higher minimum wage after TUC research suggests 900,000 under-21-year-olds were being left ‘massively out of pocket’, with young people losing an average of £2,800 every year. Autumn Budget 2022: Workers punished for Tory economic failures with too little help too late says Usdaw 17 November 2022 Retail trade union Usdaw has responded to today Autumn Budget with disappointment that low-paid working people face below inflation income increases nowhere near enough to help with the cost of living crisis. Chancellor urged by Usdaw to use his Budget to boost the incomes of low-paid workers who are struggling with the cost of living crisis 15 November 2022 Retail trade union leader Paddy Lillis, Usdaw General Secretary, has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer ahead of the Budget on Thursday 17 November, urging him to help low paid workers cope with the cost of living crisis by boosting their incomes. The union has suggested five key measures for the Government to adopt and implement. More cost of living pain with a further interest rate hike and worries that a punishment Budget is to come says Usdaw 03 November 2022 Retail trade union Usdaw has condemned the Conservative Government for tanking the economy, which has forced the Bank of England to impose a further interest rate hike on already struggling households. The union warns the Government not to inflict a punishment budget on workers to pay for their economic policy failures. Paddy Lillis addresses the TUC mass rally in Westminster: General Election NOW #DemandBetter 02 November 2022 Retail trade union leader Paddy Lillis has this evening addressed a TUC mass rally at Central Hall in Westminster, setting out the case for a new deal for workers in the midst of a cost of living crisis. Usdaw members join the TUC mass lobby of MPs: General Election NOW #DemandBetter 02 November 2022 Members of the retail trade union Usdaw are joining the mass lobby of Parliament on Wednesday 2 November to tell MPs that we demand better and call for a general election now. The lobby will conclude at 6pm with a mass rally at Central Hall in Westminster. TUC 2022: Keir Starmer is a Prime Minister in waiting, he offers the hope our members need, there must be a general election now says Usdaw 20 October 2022 Retail trade union Usdaw has welcomed today’s keynote address by Labour leader Keir Starmer to the annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Brighton. RPI inflation hits 12.6% - Usdaw demands that the Government uprates Universal Credit in line with rising prices 19 October 2022 Retail trade union Usdaw is again calling on the Government to take immediate action to tackle the cost of living crisis, as inflation continues to grow and wages are devalued by rising prices. The Retail Prices Index rate of inflation increased to 12.6% today and the Consumer Prices Index reached 10.1%. Usdaw argues that RPI is a more accurate measure of inflation, particularly as it includes housing costs. We've gone from the wrong plan for growth to no plan for growth – we need a new deal for workers says Usdaw 17 October 2022 Retail trade union Usdaw expresses deep concern about the absolute chaos at the top of Government, with the new Chancellor scrapping almost the entirety of the mini-budget. The union makes the case for a plan for growth based on a new deal for workers, now that the discredited ‘trickle-down plan’ has been dropped. Mini-budget was always the wrong priorities at the wrong time – we need a general election to get Britain back on track says Usdaw 14 October 2022 Retail trade union Usdaw says it’s not enough to partially U-turn on the disastrous mini-budget. Promoting growth and productivity needs an end to low-paid insecure employment by delivering a new deal for workers. It is clear that this can only be secured under a Labour Government. Liz Truss offers nothing on employment rights or uprating Universal Credit – tax cuts will not bring about economic growth says Usdaw 05 October 2022 Retail trade union Usdaw has condemned the Prime Minister’s speech to Conservative conference as a missed opportunity to secure economic growth by providing security for working people in the midst of a cost of living crisis. Keir Starmer offers hope for working people while the Tories are mired in economic chaos – Usdaw says it’s time for Labour 27 September 2022 Retail trade union general secretary Paddy Lillis has welcomed today’s keynote address by Labour leader Keir Starmer to the annual conference in Liverpool. Displaying results 81 - 120 (of 195) | Show: 10 | 20 | 50 | All prev 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 next
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