The following has been taken from the Labour Unions website and can be viewed by clicking here.
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Working people are finding it harder to make ends meet, jobs aren’t secure, and our schools and hospitals have been pushed to the brink. Britain simply cannot afford 5 more years of the Tories.
LABOUR WILL:
- Protect our NHS and improve patient care, with a £26bn rescue package, and increase GP training places so everyone can get an appointment when they need one.
- Introduce a real Living Wage of at least £10 an hour immediately, for all workers aged 16 and over, and ban zero hours contracts.
- Reverse school cuts, making sure every class has a qualified teacher, cap primary class sizes, give free school meals to all primary children and limit school uniform costs.
- Kick-start a green industrial revolution, creating a million good, skilled jobs in every region and nation of the UK.
- Win higher pay, more job security and a better deal at work by strengthening unions to give power back to working people.
- Build a million genuinely affordable homes over 10 years, including at least 100,000 council homes a year by 2024.
- Pay public service workers properly, with a 5% payrise in April, and above inflation pay rises every year.
- Support working families, giving all 2-4 year olds 30 hours free childcare a week, strengthening flexible working rights and opening 1,000 Sure Start Children’s Centres, so there’s one in every community.
- Make bus services work in the interests of passengers, re-opening 3000 bus routes that have closed under the Tories.
- Save people money on fares and bills by bringing rail, mail, water and energy into public ownership and rolling out a publicly owned full fibre broadband network, free to every home.
