A New Deal for Workers 2024

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Usdaw’s ‘New Deal for Workers’ Campaign was launched during the pandemic, at a time when the incredible contributions of our members really came to the fore. The campaign reflects the widespread recognition that key workers deserve not just public gratitude, but a fair deal at work – a deal where everyone is properly paid and rewarded for their work and protected from unscrupulous employment practices. • • In the years since the pandemic, it has become even clearer that we cannot trust the Tories to deliver the change working people need. After 14 years in power, they have run out of road. Through their longstanding refusal to take action to strengthen employment rights and tackle one-sided flexibility, they have failed to protect people from the cost of living crisis that they created. • • The impact their failures have had on Usdaw members is clear from the responses to our latest cost of living survey which found that: a staggering 81.5% of members say they feel worse off now than they did 12 months ago, higher than 77% in 2022 and 39% in 2021; 76% are not able to afford to take sick leave, 61% identify getting ill as a key concern, and 70% say their children are missing out. These figures, and the stories we hear every day from our members, show that we need urgent change. We need a general election and a Labour Government. • • The Labour Party was created by the trade union movement and has a strong track record of delivering substantial achievements for working people. Many basic working rights exist because trade unions fought for them and a Labour Government delivered. Sometimes it feels that Labour’s many achievements have been forgotten about, or are now simply taken for granted. • • In contrast, over their 14 years of Government, the Tories have failed working people. They commissioned the Taylor Review into Modern Employment Practices, then failed to implement many of its recommendations. They promised greater employment rights in their 2019 manifesto and failed to make good on their promises. Then they promised an Employment Bill on more than 20 occasions which they never delivered. • • After being elected in 2010, the Conservative led Government launched a serious attack on workers’ rights. This included making it easier to unfairly dismiss workers, weakening protections against redundancy and removing some protections during a business transfer. Since first coming to power, the Conservatives have overseen a 700% increase in the number of zero-hours contracts. • • The Tory Trade Union Act 2016 brought in the most restrictive anti-union laws ever seen in the UK. Strike action and recognition ballots are now even more restricted than they were during the Thatcher years. More than this, during a cost of living crisis plunging millions of households into poverty, the Tories prioritised introducing even more restrictions on the right to strike rather than finally delivering on behalf of working people. • • Their repeated broken promises on employment rights, along with attacks on working people and their trade unions, have left working people in vulnerable employment and significantly weakened the economy. As a result, poverty rates have skyrocketed across the UK, with 600,000 more children living in poverty now than in 2010. • • While the number of billionaires in the UK has more than trebled since the Tories came to power, we have seen the longest squeeze on real terms wages in over 200 years. This inequality was particularly clear in their attempts to cut taxes for the richest through their disastrous 2022 mini-budget which resulted in sky rocketing mortgage payments, higher food prices and excessive energy prices. • • Five prime ministers, seven chancellors, nine work and pensions secretaries and nine business Secretaries in fourteen years. The Tories have not taken their responsibility to run our country seriously and have been caught up with in-fighting while the economy has stagnated, and families have fallen into poverty. The country deserves better, it deserves a government interested in delivering for the people rather than lining their own pockets and protecting their own interests. • • read more: https://www.usdaw.org.uk/About-Us/New... • • All content included in this video, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, video clips, digital downloads, data compilations and software, is the property of Usdaw. • • www.usdaw.org.uk

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