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Why we need a new deal for workers under Labour
A Jeremy Corbyn-led government will transform the workplace, writes MATT WILLGRESS, national organiser of the Labour Assembly Against Austerity

DELEGATES’ and visitors’ lanyards and all the branding at this week’s TUC Congress call for a new deal for workers, and after nearly a decade of Tory austerity, and decades of neoliberalism, such a new deal couldn’t be more needed.
It is an absolute scandal that we have six million people earning less than the living wage, and four million children growing up in poverty, with more children in working families being reliant on foodbanks than ever before.
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