Responding to Chancellor Sajid Javid’s announcement on the minimum wage, TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said:
“The TUC has long campaigned for a minimum wage of over £10, and an end to the discrimination young workers suffer from lower rates.
”But the Chancellor’s pre-election promise should be taken with a huge bucket of salt. This pledge would be overwhelmed by a no-deal Brexit. If we leave the EU without a deal, jobs will be lost, wages will fall, and our public services will suffer.”
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