During ♥UNIONS week, Usdaw is highlighting campaigns and successes in workplaces and communities; working with employers and politicians on solutions to our members’ issues and concerns:
New deal for workers: Campaigning for the minimum wage to be a living wage, an end to youth rates and action to tackle insecure employment.
Not all disability is visible: A campaign to help reps support members with a hidden disability.
Mental health: Supporting members with mental health issues, with the theme of ‘it's good to talk’, helping to open up conversations and reduce the stigma.
Protection of shopworkers: Seeking a protection of shopworkers law in Westminster and promoting Usdaw’s Freedom from Fear campaign.
Menopause: Raising awareness, campaigning and negotiating for better workplace rights for women experiencing the menopause.
LGBT+ Equality: Tackling discrimination and harassment by standing together with our LGBT+ friends, colleagues and members.
Support Parents and Carers: Making Carers Count is the theme of this year’s spotlight day on 26 June.
Paddy Lillis – Usdaw General Secretary says: “Usdaw is the campaigning union, improving workers’ lives and delivering for our members. Our reps and activists do a fantastic job organising for fairness at work, promoting equality by tackling discrimination and getting a better deal for our members, along with improving health and safety in their workplaces.
“The vast majority of our members are key workers who keep the country fed and healthy, but they are too often underpaid, poorly treated and do not receive the respect they deserve. There must be a new deal for workers based on decent pay, secure employment, respect, equality and action to ensure that key worker jobs are no longer underpaid and undervalued.
“All that is best achieved by joining the union. Throughout ‘Heart Unions’ week, Usdaw, along with the TUC, is celebrating the positive contribution trade union members make to the UK economy and wider society, while highlighting the benefits of trade union membership. Workers can join Usdaw through our website.”
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
Heart Unions’ week: 12 to 18 February 2023 highlights the positive contribution that trade unions make in workplaces and across wider society www.tuc.org.uk/heartunions
Join Usdaw: www.usdaw.org.uk/Join-Us
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