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It's time for Labour to deliver on New Deal
Calls from TUC and GTFU for industrial strategy on eve of workers' parliament
(left-right) Rachel Reeves, Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner, at the launch event for Labour's campaign bus at Uxbridge College, while on the General Election campaign trail, June 1, 2024

UNIONS will press Labour this weekend to put “flesh on the bones” of its promised New Deal for Workers in the party’s upcoming Budget.

The TUC and General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) are calling for an end to decades of underinvestment and deindustrialisation.

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