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Welsh Labour Conference 2022: Usdaw calls for a retail recovery plan to help save our shops
11 March 2022
Retail trade union Usdaw has a delegation of members and officials attending the Welsh Labour Conference in Llandudno this weekend. Usdaw will be raising its deep concern at the growing crisis facing the retail sector in Wales.
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Centre for Cities ‘Will Covid-19 kill the high street?’ report should be a wakeup call for the Government says Usdaw
25 January 2022
Retail trade union Usdaw has again urged the Government to act to save our shops, after an independent think tank report finds that the pandemic has had a major impact on town and city centres.
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Select Committee report and recommendations on high streets, including an online sales tax, welcomed by Usdaw
10 December 2021
Retail trade union Usdaw has welcomed today’s select committee report that urges the Government to immediately conduct a full ‘lessons learned’ review on the impact on high streets of central and local government handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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86% of Arcadia stores remain empty - Usdaw says that clearly shows we need a retail recovery plan
01 December 2021
Retail trade union Usdaw has renewed the call for a recovery plan for the industry, after the Local Data Company found that around 86% of Arcadia group shop sites are still vacant. That includes former Topshop, Topman, Burton and Dorothy Perkins stores, which closed after the company collapsed.
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Usdaw joins industry bodies to call for a business rates discount for retailers from the Scottish Government
15 November 2021
Retail trade union Usdaw is one of thirteen leading industry bodies that have jointly written to the Scottish Finance Secretary asking her to introduce a business rates discount for all retail premises for the coming financial year.
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Labour-led parliamentary debates on business rates and the future of the high street welcomed by Usdaw
18 October 2021
Retail trade union Usdaw has welcomed Labour raising the issue of continued delay in reforming business rates and the future of high streets in two debates to be held in Parliament on Tuesday 19 October:
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Autumn Budget 2021: Usdaw calls for Government action on the retail crisis, incomes, job security and skills
04 October 2021
Retail trade union Usdaw has called on the Chancellor to use his Budget and Comprehensive Spending Review on 27 October to take substantial action to help save jobs in a struggling retail sector, avert the looming cost of living crisis and provide job security in light of the new technology revolution.
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Labour's plan to rebalance business taxes will help to save our shops says Usdaw
27 September 2021
Retail trade union Usdaw has welcomed Rachel Reeves announcement to reform business rates to help our high streets, funded by increasing the digital services tax on large online providers. Labour will level the playing field for British businesses by cutting and eventually scrapping business rates, replacing them with a new, modern system of business taxation fit for the 21st century.
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Save our shops! Usdaw calls on the next Labour Government to deliver a retail recovery plan
26 September 2021
Retail trade union Usdaw has today called on the next Labour Government to tackle the growing crisis in retail, an industry already struggling before Covid-19 and has been severely impacted by the pandemic.
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Continuing growth of empty shops further demonstrates the need for an industrial strategy for retail says Usdaw
30 July 2021
Retail trade union Usdaw has expressed deep concern about the latest British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Local Data Company (LDC) shop vacancy monitor. The figures reveal that the vacancy rate across the country increased to 14.5% in the last quarter from 14.1%, with one-in-five shopping centre units now sitting empty.