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TRADE union leaders in Britain are backing a Europe-wide campaign to increase minimum wage rates.
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) said yesterday that many countries’ current statutory rates are insufficient to lift workers out of poverty.
Confederal secretary Esther Lynch called on the EU to set a target for increasing minimum wages across Europe, as this would help drive economic growth.
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
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
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