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Labour needs policies that end low paid and low skilled work

October 27, 2014 By the Smith Institute

Commenting on the launch of our major report Making work better, Tony Burke, assistant deputy secretary of Unite, wrote on Left Foot Forward saying that there is ‘a crying need’ for clear policies to end low paid and low skilled work and to create decent workplaces. 

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