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Nearly a third of shopworkers consider quitting due to abuse, Usdaw survey finds

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Retail trade union Usdaw has today (10 March) launched statistics from their annual survey of over 7,700 retail staff showing that nearly a third (30%) are considering changing their job and over four-in-ten (41%) feel anxious about work, all because of high levels of verbal abuse, threats and assaults. At a time of labour shortages, …

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