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Dairy Home delivery Home Shopping Production and Manufacturing Retail Food Retail Non-food Transport Warehouse and Distribution Displaying results 51 - 70 (of 135) | Show: 10 | 20 | 50 | All prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...14 next Queen's Speech 2021: Usdaw calls on the Government to Save our Shops and deliver a New Deal for Workers 10 May 2021 Retail trade union Usdaw is urging the Government to focus tomorrow’s Queen’s Speech on: ensuring workers are valued, respected and have fairly paid secure jobs, along with reform of Universal Credit to tackle in-work poverty, and reversing the decline on our high streets. Empty shop surge further demonstrates the need for an industrial strategy for retail says Usdaw 30 April 2021 Retail trade union Usdaw has expressed deep concern about the latest BRC-LDC shop vacancy monitor. The figures reveal that the vacancy rate across the country increased to 14.1% in the quarter to the end of March, from 13.7% in the last three months of 2020. The Union renews the call for the Government to work with them and employers to develop an industrial strategy for retail. Labour focusses on "A brighter future for our high streets" - Usdaw will speak for retail workers through a new commission 19 April 2021 Retail trade union Usdaw welcomes a new independent Commission on Rebuilding Our High Streets, launched today by Labour’s Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds. It brings together experts from retail, leisure and hospitality businesses, as well as representatives of the trade union, local government, co-operative and social enterprise sectors. Usdaw welcomes Labour's focus on reviving the high street 22 March 2021 Retail trade union Usdaw has welcomed today’s speech from the Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds, which set out Labour’s commitment to breathe fresh life into Britain’s high streets and highlighted the need to level the playing field between high street and online retailers. Chancellor again fails to provide the long-term support retail needs says Usdaw - Government's sticking plasters do not go far enough 03 March 2021 Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw is disappointed that the Chancellor has again chosen short-term measures, when the retail industry is desperate for fundamental reform to save our shops, boost struggling high streets, while protecting jobs and incomes for the long-term. Budget 2021: Usdaw launches a retail recovery plan and urges the Chancellor to provide immediate help to save our shops 02 March 2021 Retail trade union Usdaw has today launched a retail recovery plan to help struggling high streets build back better from the coronavirus crisis. The union is challenging the Chancellor to provide immediate assistance, in tomorrow’s Budget, for a struggling retail industry to help high streets, save our shops and protect jobs. Budget 2021: Usdaw makes the case for retail recovery, along with support for workers’ jobs, incomes and lifelong learning 24 February 2021 Shopworkers’ trade union leader Paddy Lillis has written the Chancellor of the Exchequer outlining Usdaw’s key priorities for next week’s Budget on Wednesday 3 March 2021. Usdaw backs Keir Starmer’s vision for a Britain based on security and opportunity 18 February 2021 In a speech about his vision for the future, Keir Starmer spelt out the choices facing Britain in the March Budget and the decade to come, vision that Usdaw backs as one that will make a real difference for the union’s members. How many retail job losses does it take for the Government to act? 11 February 2021 Paddy Lillis – Usdaw General Secretary writes…You only have to walk down any high street to see how the retail sector has been impacted by the pandemic, with 20,000 store closures across the UK and 180,000 jobs lost last year. If any other industry faced this level of upheaval, there would quite rightly be a public outcry and Government action, but that is not the case with retail. That is why Usdaw launched our ‘Save our Shops’ campaign. Arcadia brands moving to online only, with Boohoo, shows that the Government needs to act to save our shops says Usdaw 08 February 2021 Retail trade union Usdaw is seeking urgent meetings with Arcadia administrators and urges them to treat staff with fairness and dignity, after Boohoo today confirmed the takeover of Arcadia brands Burton, Wallis and Dorothy Perkins. Usdaw is also calling on the Government to urgently act to save our high streets. Displaying results 51 - 70 (of 135) | Show: 10 | 20 | 50 | All prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...14 next
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