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4 April 2018
Retail crunch: even giants not immune as 21,000 jobs disappear
Fight for living wages and public ownership: A recovery in the retail sector requires a recovery in the pockets of ordinary workers
14 March 2018
Sainsbury's raise really a cut: fight for £10 with no strings!
Supermarket Sainsbury's announced on 6 March that it will increase the wages of its 130,000 store workers.
7 March 2018
Toys R Us, Maplin: worsening retail crisis claims more jobs
Trade unions must fight for public ownership: Big high street retailers Toys R Us and Maplin have gone under, with a number of other familiar names like Mothercare rumoured to follow
14 February 2018
I'm now a 'manager' and I can barely manage!
I work in a well-known high street chain and I was promoted a little while ago and thought to myself "finally, things might get a bit easier!" How foolish I was!
31 January 2018
Supermarket's slash jobs - union fightback needed
Two of so-called 'Big Four' supermarkets - Tesco and Sainsbury's - have announced job losses running into the thousands.
10 January 2018
Amy Murphy for Usdaw president - vote for a fighting and democratic union
Elections for the new president of Usdaw, the shop and distribution workers' union, take place from 15 January with Socialist Party member Amy Murphy running to give the union a fighting leadership.
13 December 2017
Retail sector crunch: nationalise to save jobs
Toys R Us plans to close a third of its stores. Asda wants to downgrade hundreds of shopfloor supervisors. Britain's largest tobacco distributor Palmer & Harvey has gone into administration.
23 August 2017
Three-week Argos distribution strike
Workers at four Argos distribution centres across the country are taking strike action
26 April 2017
Usdaw ADM 2017: Left challenge needed to end assault on retail jobs and conditions
In 2016 many changes were made within the big four supermarkets as they adapted to falling sales. The Coop, Sainsburys, Morrisons and Tesco all saw many store closures and thousands of jobs lost.
5 April 2017
What would a socialist food industry look like?
How to feed the world? That is a question that capitalism has never been able to solve, with one-third of the world's total population suffering malnutrition. Even in the economically advanced capitalist countries like Britain growing numbers are reliant on food banks.
22 February 2017
Argos fails to pay staff minimum wage - taxman cuts fine in half!
Retail giant Argos has recently been caught red-handed paying 37,000 workers less than the national minimum wage.
22 February 2017
Organise to reverse 28% rise in violence against retail workers
News that violence against shop workers has gone up by 28% in a year will come as no surprise to those who've worked in the industry. The British Retail Consortium reports that half of retail workers have been verbally abused, and over 8% assaulted.
1 February 2017
End poverty pay now... Get organised!
Over Christmas I worked gruelling hours in the retail sector, sometimes up to seven hours without any breaks. I did not dare refuse or complain as I was on a four-hour contract and I knew that I'd be put at the bottom of the list if a shift came up at short notice.
18 January 2017
Billions in profit for Tesco, cuts and job losses for workers
Britain's biggest retailer, Tesco, reported that it had its best sales growth at the end of last year's quarter for over five years. At the same time, 1,015 Tesco workers will lose their jobs as Tesco announced that it is closing two distribution centres in Hertfordshire and Derbyshire
13 July 2016
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles including a roofing workers' strike in Wigan and supermarkets in crisis.
22 June 2016
Some 20,000 members of the BHS pension scheme are concerned to find their pensions from the failed firm are now in the Pension Protection Fund, meaning they will receive less than expected.
4 May 2016
Usdaw conference shifts left and demands "backbone" from the union
Against a backdrop of attacks on supermarket premium payments and retail job losses, the conference of Usdaw, the shop workers' union, took place in Blackpool on 24-27 April.
27 April 2016
Nationalise BHS to save 11,000 jobs
Department store BHS is going into administration. The news on 24 April will have shocked many, not least the 11,000 staff. The company should be nationalised, and run democratically by workers and consumers.
16 March 2016
Living wage lie: end low pay with £10 an hour now!
A feature on low pay featuring articles by a Tesco worker, a public sector trade unionist and the experiences of a zero-hour contract worker
11 March 2016
Retail workers will welcome the defeat of government plans
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