CWU General Secretary Dave Ward responds to Taylor Review

For immediate release
11th July 2017

CWU General Secretary Dave Ward responds to Taylor Review

“For workers across the UK the labour market is like the Wild West. Exploitation is exploitation whether it’s in a sweat shop or at the end of an iPhone and the Taylor Review falls way short of addressing the problems workers face.

“With six million people earning less than a genuine living wage, it is astonishing that this review is watering down workers’ rights to the minimum wage. Far from creating a country that works for everyone, Theresa May is creating a country in which we work until we drop.

“The question for trade unions is what we’re going to do about it. It’s time for the union movement to come together in a concerted campaign to end insecure employment and in work poverty by making greater demands on behalf of all workers. The CWU is calling for an agreement on a common bargaining agenda, a trade union manifesto on what constitutes a new deal for workers and a well constructed plan including action to achieve it.

“It’s incumbent upon unions to step up, work together and deliver a new kind of trade unionism. We must make the future world of work the number one political issue and organise workers everywhere.”

– Dave Ward, CWU General Secretary

Notes to editors:

• The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is the biggest trade union in the communications industry with 195,000 members in post, telecoms, mobile and financial services companies including Royal Mail, Post Office, BT Group, EE, O2 and Santander.

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Charlie Pullinger, CWU Press Officer 020 8971 7442 / 07793 314249 /cpullinger@cwu.org