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Usdaw Protecting Retail Workers Parliamentary Reception
- 13/11/2023
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
No CommentsAs part of Usdaw’s ongoing Freedom From Fear Campaign, I attended the Respect for Shopworkers Week Parliamentary Reception on Monday 13 November 2023 with Paddy Lillis, General Secretary of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) and spoke to him about the issues faced by shopworkers. Violent crime and abuse is a very
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Remembrance Day 2023
- 12/11/2023
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
I placed a wooden cross in the Constituency Garden of Remembrance in Parliament on behalf of my constituents in Walsall South. On the cross I wrote “We will remember them always” 11 November 2023 commemorates Remembrance Day marking the armistice that ended the First World War. Every year we remember all those who fell in
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Supporting the GMB campaign for Equal Pay
- 06/11/2023
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
I supported the GMB campaign for Equal Pay for Asda workers on Friday, 3 November, outside the Asda St. Matthews Superstore alongside Tom Warnett, the National GMB Political Officer. Equal pay is a priority for the GMB Union, and it is an issue that I have campaigned on for many years. That’s why women workers
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Bescot Stadium Station disabled access meeting
- 03/11/2023
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
On Friday 3 November, I organised a meeting with Network Rail, West Midlands Trains, and the Office of the Mayor of the West Midlands at Bescot Stadium Station to discuss the issue of disabled access at the Station. Denise Wetton, Central Route Director at Network Rail, a representative from West Midlands Trains, Mal Drury-Rose, Director
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Visit to Firsteel Walsall
- 03/11/2023
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
My visit to Firsteel on Friday 3 November 2023 started with a meeting as the main picture shows above with L-R Paul Jones, CEO of the Northern Automotive Alliance, Tony Grimshaw, Company Director of What More UK, Garry Ireland, Operations Director and Paul Didlick General Manager at Firsteel. I was delighted to visit Firsteel, the