Respect for Shopworkers Week Articles

The Freedom From Fear campaign is one of Usdaw's main campaigns and is incredibly important to the lives of our members. Our members, and all workers, should be free from the fear of violence, threats and abuse while going about their working lives. Our annual Freedom...

Usdaw’s Freedom From Fear campaign seeks to prevent violence, threats and abuse against shopworkers in the course of their duties. Our latest survey shows that in the last 12 months over 300 shopworkers were assaulted every day, just for doing their job. The campaign...

Yesterday the House of Lords considered an amendment to the antisocial behaviour, crime and policing bill that will introduce a specific additional punishment for anyone who assaults a worker who is serving the public. The amendment will be tabled by George Foulkes...

Scotland under Labour had a proud record of acting to protect workers from violence, threats and abuse. In fact, we were ahead of the game when we passed the Emergency Service Workers (Scotland) Act 2005 to make it an offence to assault or impede persons who provide...