Demands for the minimum wage to be urgently increased to £15 have been met by silence from the Labour Party – despite the UK facing the “longest and harshest wage squeeze in modern history.”
On Tuesday, the Trade Union Congress (TUC) released a report calling for the minimum wage to be increased to £15 an hour for all workers in 2030, up from £9.50 for those aged 23 and over. Workers aged 21-22 currently receive £9.18 and workers aged 18-20 receive a mere £6.83.
Asked whether it supported paying all workers £15, Labour – the party that introduced the national minimum wage in 1998 – told openDemocracy it would not comment, saying it had already set out its own proposals on wages.
