THE Communication Workers Union (CWU) has successfully tabled a motion to Labour conference that would push the party to fight for a four-day working week.

The postal workers and communications union will put forward the motion “A four-day week for a fairer, more sustainable society” to delegates meeting in Brighton next week.

The motion, which points out that Britain has “some of the worst public and statutory holiday entitlements” in Europe, says that Labour should campaign to achieve either a 32-hour gross week or a standard four-day working week within the next decade.