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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.
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
