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25 March 2020
Retail and the coronavirus outbreak - organise to defend workers interests
Coronavirus is sending tremors through capitalist society. Many workers who have been enduring increasing casualised working conditions, such as zero or short-hour contracts, have had further cuts to sick pay and other contractual changes.
18 March 2020
Action needed to protect shop workers and access to essential goods
As the coronavirus crisis deepens, shop workers are becoming another 'emergency service' to ensure people can still access food and other basics
11 March 2020
Fighting to transform the union in my warehouse
Conditions in my workplace have been decaying over the last decade. The cost of surviving, let alone living, has gotten harder.
11 March 2020
Supermarkets are ruled by profit - unions should control supply limits
Many shop and supermarket shelves are being stripped of hand wash, toilet rolls and some food lines such as dry pasta, as people panic buy and stockpile because of coronavirus, writes Scott Jones, Usdaw union member (personal capacity).
11 March 2020
Argos workers in Sainsbury's stores threatened with losing collective bargaining
Argos has announced the transfer of its staff working in Sainsbury's shops to Sainsbury's itself, writes Iain Dalton, Usdaw Broad Left chair.
15 January 2020
Low Pay, Long Hours. Bosses rip us off. Organise the fightback now!
Boris Johnson has announced the minimum wage is going up. It's not by nearly enough. And at the same time, the Tories let bosses get away with paying hundreds of thousands of workers below the legal minimum!
6 November 2019
Incompetent bosses use tech to bully us
Management at my warehouse uses new technology to harass the workers - and has even proposed a new pay deal which includes scrapping Christmas bonuses for most of the shopfloor.
9 October 2019
Asda workers protest callous bosses
Workers organised with the GMB union protested outside more than 75 Asda stores across the UK on Thursday 3 October. Bosses have said they will fire anyone who doesn't sign up to 'Contract 6' by 2 November.
9 October 2019
Sainsbury's workers who took two 24-hour strikes at Waltham Point distribution centre have forced the bosses to concede on the main issue of the dispute - a massive reduction in sickness pay from 26 weeks to just two
4 September 2019
What strategy can end the retail jobs massacre?
The last few years have seen swathes of closures of shops across the UK as whole chains have collapsed while others close considerable numbers of stores.
31 July 2019
Sainsbury's distribution workers' second 24-hour strike against cuts to sick pay
Waltham Point distribution centre workers took action on 25 July
3 July 2019
Angry Usdaw members strike at Sainsbury's distribution centre over sick pay cut
Dozens of members of shop workers' union Usdaw picketed Sainsbury's Waltham Point distribution centre in Essex for most of their 24-hour strike against changes to sickness policy.
19 June 2019
Trade union action can end low pay
Five million workers in Britain (over one in six) are stuck in low-paid and insecure work, writes Ruth Byrne, catering worker.
22 May 2019
Morrisons workers reject pay offer
The 17 May could be an historic moment for Morrisons workers. It is now time for our union Usdaw, the shop workers' union, to dig deep and come out on top.
15 May 2019
United on need for fightback - now keep pressure on for action
The annual delegate meeting of retail and distribution union Usdaw turned a corner this year
8 May 2019
Usdaw union conference demands action on pay, jobs and the right
With almost a year since the departure of Blairite general secretary John Hannett, this year's Usdaw conference feels different
1 May 2019
As delegates arrive in Blackpool for the annual conference of Usdaw, the retail and distribution union, many shop workers are facing job losses and worse pay and conditions as the retail crisis deepens.
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