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Usdaw president Jane Jones opens the organisation’s 76th annual delegate meeting in Blackpool
[Lee Boswell]
UNIONS must make the voice of austerity-hit workers heard “louder and stronger than ever,” Usdaw president Jane Jones urged today, as she opened the organisation’s 76th annual delegate meeting.
Despite widespread “despair at the injustice of it all,” Ms Jones issued a rally cry for the retail union’s 356,000 members to fight ahead of a probable general election next year.
Speaking in Blackpool’s Empress Ballroom, Ms Jones accused Tory ministers of “failing time and time again to take the urgent action needed to support low-paid workers and protect our high streets” amid soaring inflation.
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