JEREMY CORBYN praised McDonald’s strikers today as he announced a wave of bold policies to protect hospitality workers including ensuring all tips go to staff.

The Labour Party leader told the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) conference in Southport that taking action like the McStrikers is “what needs to be done to change our society.”

Telling conference that “a generation of working people are fed up with being told what they have to do,” he also presented an organising award to Lauren McCourt, a McStriker from Manchester, on behalf of the union.

Mr Corbyn promised a wave of new legislation to aid hospitality staff, pledging laws to ensure that 100 per cent of tips will be kept by staff.

Businesses will be banned from taking a cut of customer tips offered on credit or debit cards, which are often claimed by managers as being necessary “administrative fees,” he said.

Labour has already pledged to implement a real living wage of £10 an hour by 2020 for all workers, regardless of their age, and to ensure that all workers will enjoy full employment and union rights, as well as guaranteed regular work hours.

Mr Corbyn also called for a “revolution” in the handling of sexual harassment in the workplace, telling delegates that workers must be “free” to perform their hospitality tasks without “unacceptable behaviour” and “abuses of power from colleagues, clients or customers.”

Pointing to the fact that, as home secretary in 2013, Theresa May repealed Section 40 of the 2010 Equality Act — which required employers to “take reasonable steps” against sexual harassment — Mr Corbyn announced that Labour would reinstate third-party harassment provisions.

A Labour government would also double the timeframe in which employment tribunals can be taken and pass laws to ensure that no contractual clauses could be made that could stop disclosure of future workplace discrimination, harassment or victimisation.

Mr Corbyn saluted BFAWU’s consistent efforts to unionise workplaces, saluting Hovis workers in Wigan who successfully fought against the imposition of zero-hours contracts in 2013.

Labour will also give ordinary people help to unionise in the form of its new community organising unit, which he said intends to “make politics relevant to the everyday lives of people” in order to “bring change to our society, our country and our world.”

Reminding delegates that 10 per cent of Britain’s richest people owns 45 per cent of the wealth in this country, Mr Corbyn attacked the current state of Britain, condemning the “collapse” of the health and social care systems as well as the “scourge and immorality” of homelessness.

He said: “What does all this say about modern Britain? We have skilled, dedicated nurses having to access foodbanks to just make ends meet.

“These are not complicated, academic issues — these are problems happening in the lives of people around us every day.

“People go through the most incredible stress about how they are going to feed their children, and how they are going to get the support they need.

“These are questions that need to be addressed by our movement at the nearest electoral opportunity we can get.”

Finishing his speech, he urged delegates that “in an ever-changing, volatile capitalist economy such as ours,” it is “essential” for unions to “push into new industries” to ensure decent representation of working people.

This is the only way, Mr Corbyn said, that the “democratic socialist aspirations” that the labour movement has for society will be realised.