The federation of trade unions in England and Wales, has said that better pay and conditions for delivery drivers will help fix the supply chain crisis.
Trades Union Congress (TUC), the federation of trade unions in England and Wales, has said that better pay and conditions for delivery drivers will help fix the supply chain crisis.
It has called for a rise in the capital gains tax to fund an increase in pay for care workers. Pay rise is crucial for the Government’s “levelling up” agenda to boost poorer regions of the United Kingdom (U.K.).
Speaking on the occasion, the General Secretary of TUC – Frances O’Grady said, “After decades of real wage cuts… no-one can seriously say working people don’t deserve a pay rise.”
Addressing the TUC Congress in London, O’Grady called on the U.K.’s unions to continue their fight for better pay and conditions across the economy. She urged for the industry to deliver decent conditions, direct employment and a proper pay rise.
She further said, “It can’t be right that a dedicated care worker pays a bigger share of her hard-earned income to fund the social care system than the private equity magnate who profits from buying up and selling care homes.”
TUC wants the Government to reconsider recent rises to National Insurance contributions, describing the move as “another hit” to young people and low-paid workers. O’Grady argued that shifting tax to wealth instead may offer a boost in demand for the economy. She even called for a furlough-style short working scheme to be permanently in place to keep people in good jobs – and to make sure we bounce back fast.
Meanwhile, the Director-General of the Employer’s Organisation warned that a return to business as usual in economic policy would be a mistake, with the UK lagging behind some of its international competitors in driving investment in the industries of the future. He pushed for series of measures including smarter taxation that rewards those firms who invest in the future, new individual training accounts to make it easier to access support, speeding up major infrastructure projects with catalytic public investment, replicating the successes of offshore wind in hydrogen and other emerging industries as well as rebalancing economic regulation.
In order to not to repeat the low growth, zero productivity of the decade past, it called for investment by the U.K. Government. A spokesperson from Government Treasury said Government had shown it was committed to supporting business investment, extending the Annual Investment Allowance increase for another year and introducing the super-deduction, which it called “the biggest two-year business tax cut in modern British history.”
