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The government is making more than £130m available to tackle serious violent crime. Home Secretary, Priti Patel, announced today (8 March) that the

Retail workers have had to enforce mask rules while risking their own safety in dangerous confrontations over the last year.

Alabama Amazon workers accelerate struggle for a union At an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., 5,800 workers have won the right to vote for union representation. The National Labor Relations Board has authorized a mail-in election starting Feb. 8, with ballots due by March 29. Union organizers talk to workers at 4:30 a.m. outside the gates of the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. If a majority of workers vote yes, their victory will be a historic moment in the struggle of U.S. low-paid, part-time and gig workers against sharpening capitalist exploitation. The campaign by Bessemer workers ...

Retail trade union Usdaw has responded to a parliamentary inquiry into violence and abuse towards retail staff with a call for legislation to protect retail staff. Today the union released new statistics showing that nearly 9 in 10 shopworkers were abused last year. Last night the Scottish Parliament unanimously voted for a ground-breaking new law to protect shopworkers. Usdaw’s 2020 survey of 2,729 shopworkers across the UK found that: 88% experienced verbal abuse, 61% were threatened by a customer, The influential Home Affairs Select Committee launched their inquiry the day ...