Paul Nowak

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"Restoring the Union Learning Fund is common sense and a boost for workers and the economy; scrapping it was an ideological own goal by the previous government."

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"Paul Nowak welcomes government proposals to close legal loopholes that allow employers to misclassify workers as self-employed, calling out 'cynical bosses' who use sham contracts to deny workers proper pay and conditions."

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"TUC General Secretary welcomes the Employment Rights Act as delivering common-sense reforms including day-one sick pay, banning exploitative zero-hours contracts, and protecting workers from harassment."

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"Manufacturing historically powered the UK economy but the country is now at the bottom of the league table in manufacturing investment compared to European peers."

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"Calls for expanding the government's Jobs Guarantee to help young people into work, attributing the youth employment crisis to austerity, insecure work, and neglected vocational training under successive Conservative governments."

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"Opposes an unmanaged AI transition that marginalises workers and calls for worker control over the technology, blaming short-termist shareholders and out-of-control companies."

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"Data centres could help develop open, transparent, and safe AI if the right conditions on energy, water, jobs, union membership and local impact are met."

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"AI is a clear and present danger to workers and wider society, and Burnham should use the G20 presidency to drive global regulation so the technology benefits everyone, not just the super-rich."

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"Calls for a windfall tax on tech giants (Meta, Apple, Amazon, Google, X) to fund public services like social care, arguing that benefits from AI and digitalisation are not being fairly shared."

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"The focus should be on giving people the opportunities and support to get into work."

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"Paul Nowak calls for wealth taxes on firms, higher taxes on the financial sector, insourcing of public services, and full delivery of new employment rights to help workers."

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"Warns that planned migration reforms requiring low-paid workers to wait 15 years for legal right to remain would worsen existing social care staffing shortages and fuel far-right sentiment."

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"Calls for workers to be made stakeholders in firms rather than inputs to be minimized by AI in pursuit of short-term profits."

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"Paul Nowak says employers who fail to pay minimum wage should be named and shamed, linking wage theft to reduced local spending and supporting the new Fair Work Agency."

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"Paul Nowak calls for naming and shaming employers who fail to pay the minimum wage, frames wage theft as harmful to workers, families, local economies, and supports the new Fair Work Agency for enforcement."

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"Youth unemployment is a crisis decades in the making requiring good-quality employment support, more training places, a growing economy with more vacancies, and a government jobs guarantee."

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"Calls the situation a crisis and says good employment support, more training places, and a growing economy with more vacancies are what is needed to tackle NEET levels."

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"Zero-hours and variable-hour workers are low-paid precarious workers with no week-to-week certainty over earnings or hours, contradicting claims they are mainly students with side hustles."

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"Paul Nowak called youth NEET levels 'a crisis' and said the solution is good employment support, more training places, and a growing economy with more vacancies."

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"Calls zero-hours contracts 'exploitative' and 'endemic', urging government to end them and arguing young people deserve secure, good employment rather than being pushed from unemployment into insecure work."

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"Zero-hours contracts have become 'endemic' and 'exploitative' in the UK; young people deserve secure employment, not a shift from unemployment into rampant insecurity."

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"Banks have bumper profits and can easily afford higher taxation, and the PM/chancellor should use a windfall tax to fund cost-of-living and social care measures."

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"Banks can easily afford more tax because they have profited enormously from higher interest rates while ordinary people face mortgage misery and higher bills."

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"High interest rates have boosted bank profits while causing mortgage misery and higher bills for ordinary people, and the government should tax banks more to fund a social energy tariff."

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"TUC's Paul Nowak argues high interest rates have enriched banks while causing mortgage misery and higher bills for workers, and that banks can easily afford higher tax."

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"Working people face stagnant real pay, insecure zero-hours contracts, and a million NEETs, so VAT on energy bills should be cut for relief."

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"Paul Nowak endorses Burnham's cost-of-living focus and calls for bank tax hikes, citing stagnant real pay, zero-hours contracts, and youth NEETs as structural pressures."

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"Britain's skills crisis is caused by years of underinvestment in skills, not a lack of talent, and greater investment and collaboration is needed."

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"TUC leader Paul Nowak urged Andy Burnham to ignore 'vested interests' and back a windfall tax on banks, citing that one in five people are skipping meals."

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"AI must be designed, governed, and negotiated by workers to prevent the gains from being captured solely by firms and shareholders."

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"The youth employment crisis is the result of a decade of inaction characterized by austerity, failing apprenticeships, the rise of insecure work, and a stagnant economy."

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"Workers require a stronger collective voice and institutional safeguards to ensure that the benefits of AI innovation reach employees, as technological progress does not automatically improve worker outcomes."

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"Technological transitions only lead to social progress when actively shaped, citing the Industrial Revolution where profits soared while wages stagnated for 50 years."

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"The threat to living standards will grow due to the economic fallout of the Iran war."

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"TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak claims the Employment Rights Act will deliver common sense reforms including day-one sick pay, zero-hours contract bans, and harassment protections, arguing stronger worker rights benefit both workers and employers."

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"Paul Nowak welcomed the government's above-inflation pay rise as delivering on its promise to make work pay, stating it will make a real difference for the lowest-paid amid high living costs."