A New Deal for Working People
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The New Deal for Working People is the Labour Party’s plan to make work pay and strengthen the economy.
It is a blueprint for respect and decent treatment at work. Volunteers from the GMB trade union joined local campaigners on Sunday to talk to residents in King’s Norton and Longbridge about Labour’s commitments.
The New Deal will make a real difference to people in work, including in particularly low-paid roles. It will also give unions like GMB a fairer chance when it fights to provide proper representation to workers in employers like Amazon.
The New Deal has been developed with unions, including GMB, to end the race-to-the-bottom in pay and terms and conditions. I am proud to have played a role in developing those policies, and I want to make sure they are implemented in Parliament.
Key commitments in the New Deal include:
Ending fire and rehire
Banning exploitative zero hours contracts
Day one rights at work
Preventing employers from using outsourcing to evade equal pay liabilities
Strengthening redundancy rights and TUPE
Strengthening flexible working and family leave rights
Reinstating the School Support Staff Negotiating Body and establishing better contracts and new pay rates for the 1,500 school support staff workers in the Northfield constituency
A Fair Pay Agreement to establish a new, national minimum pay rate for adult social care workers
Restoring and strengthening the two-tier code to protect workers who are outsourced from the public sector
New rights so that workers can access unions in their workplace
Reforming union statutory recognition and modernising balloting (by law, unions are currently required to hold statutory ballots by post)
Making blacklisting regulations fit for 21st century technology
These are important commitments which, I believe, will make a real and material difference to people in work in Northfield.
But if people want change then they have to vote for it - by backing Labour on 04 July.