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Keir Starmer’s pro-business, pro-worker manifesto will deliver the changes that Usdaw members desperately need
13 June 2024
Retail trade union Usdaw has welcomed the launch of Labour’s manifesto, a fully costed and fully funded programme to bring back economic growth and deliver prosperity. Usdaw is particularly pleased that the Party has made significant commitments on issues that the union has long called for in its ‘New Deal’, ‘Freedom from Fear’ and ‘Save our Shops’ campaigns:
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It’s time for a change - Usdaw welcomes a general election on 4 July and urges members to vote Labour
22 May 2024
Retail trade union has welcomed the calling of a general election for Thursday 4 July 2024. The union is urging their members to vote Labour for change and a new deal for working people.
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Welsh TUC: Usdaw calls for action to ‘Save our Shops’
21 May 2024
Retail trade union Usdaw has a delegation of reps and officials attending the 2024 conference of the Welsh Trades Union Congress (TUC), taking place in Llandudno from 21 to 23 May. Usdaw is calling for action to address the challenges facing retail and the high street.
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Building our movement to address the challenges of AI and failing high streets
21 May 2024
By Mike Walker – Usdaw regional secretary
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Keir Starmer’s first steps in government will set the country on the path to the change we so desperately need, says Usdaw
16 May 2024
Retail trade union Usdaw has welcomed today’s announcement of Keir Starmer’s six first six steps in government, which develops Labour’s five missions for Britain announced last year. These, alongside Labour’s new deal for working people and their high street plan, set out a clear vision for a better country.
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Labour plans for high streets can turn around over a decade of Tory retail decline says Usdaw
09 April 2024
Retail trade union Usdaw has welcomed Labour’s plan to rescue retailers, as the party pledges 'full force of government to breathe life into Britain’s high streets’. Usdaw has long campaigned for the Government to work with the union and
employers to develop a retail industrial strategy to tackle longstanding and ongoing difficulties in the sector and help save our shops and the important jobs they provide. The Conservatives simply have not listened, Labour offers new hope.
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Spring Budget 2024: Government fails to deliver on Usdaw’s calls for a new deal for workers and a retail recovery plan
06 March 2024
Retail trade union Usdaw has condemned the Chancellor for failing to listen to the union and its members by not delivering on their priorities.
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Scottish Retail Consortium and Usdaw unite to oppose business rate surtax on grocery stores
05 February 2024
Retail trade union Usdaw has added its voice to those calling on Scottish Ministers to reject plans for a business rate surtax on grocery stores.
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Spring Budget 2024: Usdaw calls for a new deal for workers and a retail recovery plan
30 January 2024
Retail trade union Usdaw has made a formal representation to HM Treasury for measures to be included in the 2024 Spring Budget on 6 March. Following consultation with members, both directly and through their representatives in Usdaw, the union has developed policy suggestions to improve the lives of working people covering the following key areas:
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Nearly 120,000 retail jobs lost and over 10,000 store closures last year – Usdaw again calls for an industrial strategy and recovery plan
08 January 2024
Retail trade union Usdaw is again calling on the Government to work with them and employers to develop a retail industrial strategy to tackle longstanding and ongoing difficulties in the sector and help save our shops. The call comes after the Centre for Retail Research today revealed that 10,494 shops closed for the last time during 2023 and 119,405 jobs were lost in the sector.