DELEGATES packed a fringe at CWU conference today on the campaign for a shorter working week.On the penultimate day of their Bournemouth gathering, members gathered to discuss how to build momentum behind the idea.Phil Lindsey, of the Four Day Week campaign, argued that the scepticism and opposition to the idea in the right-wing press mirrored the long demolished arguments over five-day week a century ago.

DELEGATES packed a fringe at CWU conference today on the campaign for a shorter working week.

On the penultimate day of their Bournemouth gathering, members gathered to discuss how to build momentum behind the idea.

Phil Lindsey, of the Four Day Week campaign, argued that the scepticism and opposition to the idea in the right-wing press mirrored the long demolished arguments over five-day week a century ago.

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