Why the Four-Day Week Matters
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This year’s Labour Party conference passed a motion, brought by the CWU, calling for the party to support a 32-hour working week. It followed a 2018 report from the TUC, which called for a 4-day week and many unions, including Unite, PCS, and RMT announcing commitments to shorter working hours.
Despite this, much of the current discourse around the 4-day week, often granted more publicity, has been from think tanks, academics and liberal journalism. This set of voices and the tones in which they pronounce the cause can make it is easy for the left to dismiss it as comparatively less radical and indeed urgent than other agendas. But this would be a mistake.