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We Need Five Days’ Pay for Four Days’ Work
Working time reduction has always been used as a way of distributing available work and reducing unemployment. In our era of crisis, we need to fight for a four-day week.
Aidan Harper is a researcher at New Economics Foundation.
Working time reduction has always been used as a way of distributing available work and reducing unemployment. In our era of crisis, we need to fight for a four-day week.
Another Tory government means another wave of attacks on UK unions, beginning with transport workers. There’s only one way to respond: building a mass movement that can fight for workers’ rights — and take industrial action over any issue a workforce sees fit.