Unions vow to fight in-work poverty, job insecurity and automation
Delegates vote to create a ‘New Deal for Workers’ campaign
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BRITAIN’S trade unions have vowed to fight for a new deal for workers to combat in-work poverty, job insecurity and automation.
At the Trades Union Congress in Brighton today, delegates voted to create a “New Deal for Workers” campaign to improve pay and working conditions.
The composite motion agreed that a summit should be held in the first half of 2020 to agree how to recruit unorganised workers and to end workplace recruitment competition between unions.
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