Fight For Better Pay

The Workers Union passionately believes that people in this country deserve a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work. We’ve event long and hard to improve wages and conditions for everyone from self-employed delivery drivers to business executives. And now we find ourselves operating in unprecedented times.

Coronavirus has disrupted the lives of millions of people and created a deeper economic slump than the darkest days of the 1980s.

Businesses are struggling as great institutions like the NHS creak under the pressure. Workers everywhere are looking to payday loans for salvation and nervously eyeing their contracts for redundancy clauses. It looks bleak…but there is hope.

What are we doing?

We’re placing our trust in the genius of the British people, that’s what. In this country we have creativity, ingenuity and a great work ethic. Our citizens have made significant contributions to world-affairs and will continue to do so. We have much to be proud of and much more to give.

So, we look at problems through a different lens from other unions. Of course we want to improve living standards for people in poorly remunerated jobs. Of course we want to protect the vulnerable from harassment and abuse. But we don’t do so from some barely articulated political position. We do so because we think the British people deserve to be well-paid and well-supported.

In short, we believe:

• The British people are uniquely resourceful, so let’s back them with jobs, training and a living wage
• The British people will recover from COVID-19 and make a success of the post-Brexit world. So let’s give them the resources they need to succeed.

Of course there will be those that say that we can’t afford such misty-eyed optimism. Well, we encourage anyone that considers decent pay a luxury to think of our NHS workers. During the COVID crisis their single-minded determination, creativity and boundless courage saved many, many lives. So it seems cynical at best and downright callous at worse to ignore their demands for better wages.

The simple truth is that we can afford it. We just have to decide to spend the money we raise on building a compassionate, tolerant and just society that benefits everyone, not just a select few.

It shouldn’t be an ideological choice. It’s a moral choice and one that we ignore at our peril.

Our Event

While the Chancellor toys with rowing back on promises to increase the national living wage, we are fighting harder than ever to secure a better future for our members.

We’re saying:

No to scrapping the planned increase to the national living wage

No to pay freezes in the NHS

No to shady bosses welcoming back furloughed workers with illegal pay cuts

No to pay freezes in the public sector

Visit our join us page to read more about how backing us means that we can back you.

The Workers Union – winning the fight for better pay today, tomorrow and always.