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ROYAL MAIL bosses should do more to give permanent contracts to agency workers, Communication Workers’ Union delegates agreed yesterday.
Delegates voting at the union conference have mandated their executive to “reach an appropriate agreement” with Royal Mail to convert temporary workers into employees with proper contracts.
One compelling reason given by delegates from the floor was the fear of the gig economy creeping into the structures of the postal industry.
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
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street