{"id":484,"date":"2026-05-10T10:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2026-05-10T10:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:41:12","slug":"from-fringe-issue-to-the-heart-of-politics-the-uk-living-wage-campaign-marks-25-years-of-success-heather-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"From fringe issue to the heart of politics: the UK Living Wage campaign marks 25 years of success | Heather Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The group\u2019s latest triumph won over the Department for Business and Trade, now it is eyeing private care providers and supermarkets<\/p>\n<p>A paragon of the kind of people-powered progress that feels all the more necessary in divisive times, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livingwage.org.uk\/\">Living Wage campaign<\/a>, is celebrating its25th anniversary this year.<\/p>\n<p>Born out of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizensuk.org\/chapters\/east-london\/\">Telco (The East London Citizens\u2019 Organisation)<\/a>, which ultimately became the nationwide group Citizens UK, the campaign has always involved communities working together, to press for social and economic change.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/10\/uk-living-wage-campaign-marks-25-years-of-success\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The group\u2019s latest triumph won over the Department for Business and Trade, now it is eyeing private care<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}