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TRADE union leaders in Britain are backing a Europe-wide campaign to increase minimum wage rates.
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) said yesterday that many countries’ current statutory rates are insufficient to lift workers out of poverty.
Confederal secretary Esther Lynch called on the EU to set a target for increasing minimum wages across Europe, as this would help drive economic growth.
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Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE