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New Deal for Working People

Britain isn’t working. The world of work is rigged in favour of bad bosses and against ordinary working people.

More than four million people are in precarious employment. Over one million are employed on zero hours contracts. Millions don’t have access to proper sick pay schemes. Rogue employers like P&O Ferries can sack hundreds of staff on the spot without facing any consequences. Whilst Amazon uses every dirty trick in the book to stop its workers from organising in a trade union. And wages are still worth less than they were in 2008.

Working people need change. Unions have been campaigning for years to push the government to deliver higher pay and stronger workers’ rights. And we’re closer than ever to delivering transformative change for working people.

The Labour Party has committed to deliver a transformative New Deal for Working People to Make Work Pay if it is elected. It was developed with unions and would be the biggest upgrade of workers’ rights in a generation.

They are committed to:

Ban zero hours contracts
End fire and rehire
Strengthen sick pay
Provide key employment rights from day one of the job
Give employees a right to flexible working
End lower minimum wage rates for young people
Force companies to disclose pay gap between BME and disabled staff and other workers
Grant unions new rights to organise and win better pay for workers

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The business lobby is gearing up to attack the New Deal for Working People - just like it did 25 years ago, against the National Minimum Wage. We beat them then and we can beat them again.

The low-pay, low-rights employment model of the last 14 years has failed. It’s time for change.

What you can do

Join a union. The best way to win higher pay and better rights at work is to form a union at your workplace. Join today
Tell your story. Big business will campaign against the new workers’ rights promised in the New Deal. To beat their narrative, we need to show what a huge difference New Deal policies would make to working people. Do you have a story to tell about how you would benefit from a new deal policy? Tell us here.
Read about the New Deal for Working People.
Contact your union to find out how you can get involved in campaigning for a New Deal for Working people.

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