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AN ASDA worker is faced with the prospect of having to forgo caring for her disabled son and husband as part of a newly imposed contract — or face the sack.
Another worker at the supermarket giant said they felt “worthless, used and abused” after bosses started pressing them to sign a new agreement, known as Contract 6.
Employees who sign the document lose paid breaks and are obliged to work bank holidays and weekends.
The new TUC Cymru general secretary speaks to Morning Star Wales reporter David Nicholson about her trade union background and ambitions for the movement
The Odyssey is a tale of evasions and half-truths; this reflects the effects of traumatic ‘moral injury’ common to war veterans, suggests STEPHAN BLUM
Plans to delay access to the universal credit health element until age 22 have triggered fierce opposition from disabled people’s groups, who warn it would deepen poverty and entrench discrimination against young disabled people under the guise of ‘encouraging work.’ DYLAN MURPHY reports
