THE next Labour government should commit to reforming taxation so that the wealthiest “pay their fair share” and public services are “properly funded,” trade unionists urged today.

Bringing forward a composition on the union-led New Deal for Workers campaign at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, the CWU and FBU unions said that workers need immediate change amid growing levels of inequalities in society.

“Outside the workplace, our society is literally crumbling and public services are beyond breaking point,” the unions said in the composition.

“Yet the wealthiest in our society escape fair taxation and profiteering has become the norm.”

They said that the deal is an electoral advantage for Labour and should be implemented in its entirety when elected.

The composition also called on the party to expand its commitment to sectoral collective bargaining beyond one sector to tackle the imbalance of power in the workplace, as well as to commit to properly implementing a single status of worker and end bogus self-employment within the firm term of a Labour government.

Moving the composition, CWU general secretary Dave Ward said he paid credit to Labour for “really taking this [campaign] on board now,” adding: “It is a vote-winner, by the way.”

“This policy really is a flagship policy for us … but it cannot [just] be a slogan.

“And as much as we will support Keir, Angela, the Labour Party … we are also going to make sure that you deliver on this deal.

“We ain’t taking our foot off the pedal.”

FBU general secretary and TUC president Matt Wrack said: “The world of work for millions of people is a world of struggle of exploitation and of insecurity.

“Wages in this economy have stagnated for 15 years as working-class people have paid the price, first for the banking crisis, then for the Covid crisis, and then now for the new cost-of-living crisis.”

Mr Wrack said that the deal would “allow us to begin to turn the tide in the balance of power in the workplace.”

Voting on the composition was expected to take place after the Morning Star went to print.

Former TUC president Maria Exall praised the New Deal, telling conference: “We need to overturn the long legacy of Thatcherism.

“The priorities in the New Deal come from workplaces up and down the country. And now they are at the heart of our appeal to the British people.

“This is the union-Labour link in action.”