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Usdaw conference news in brief: April 20, 2024

USDAW backed reducing the voting age to 16 at its annual conference today.

General secretary Paddy Lillis supported the motion, noting that 16-year-olds can vote in both the Scottish and Welsh parliaments, and in “neither place has the sky fallen in or democracy been destroyed.”

He said that it was right that the union fought for younger members outside of the workplace.



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