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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.
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
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
