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LABOUR in government will introduce a four-day working week, John McDonnell announced yesterday as delegates backed calls for the radical move.
The shadow chancellor’s comments came after a motion tabled by the Communication Workers Union (CWU) at the party’s annual conference in Brighton advocating the change was passed.
The shadow chancellor announced that Labour would cut the average working week to 32 hours within a decade — and eliminate in-work poverty in its first term in government, restoring union and workplace rights, introducing collective bargaining and establishing a £10-an-hour living wage.
Royal Mail’s job quality has plummeted, with gruelling hours, two-tier pay, intense surveillance, and poor work-life balance for postal workers — but our union is fighting back, writes CWU branch secretary JOHN CARSON
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
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
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP