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Calls for legal protection from abuse for shop staff

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Published Date: 12 August 2008

LABOUR leadership contender Cathy Jamieson today called for shop workers to be given the same legal protection as emergency workers.

Bar workers and other "frontline" workers dealing with the public should also be brought within the scope of the Emergency Workers Act, she said.

The move was backed by the shop workers' union USDAW, which claims retail staff are increasingly suffering violence and threats of violence at work.

The Emergency Workers Act was brought in by the last Holyrood administration in the hope of curbing attacks on police, firefighters and others.

It created the offence of assaulting, hindering or obstructing someone providing an emergency service, and was later extended to covers GPs, community nurses and community midwives.

Ms Jamieson said: "People who deal with the public provide a great service, and should be able to go about their work without fear of attack or intimidation."

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Last Updated: 12 August 2008 1:47 PM
Source: Edinburgh Evening News
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Linda,

Edinburgh 12/08/2008 13:56:00

Where is the coverage of the latest YouGov opinion poll?

A new poll by YouGov has recorded the biggest ever poll lead for the SNP with the party establishing a 19% lead over the Labour party in Scottish Parliament constituency voting intentions.

SNP is on 44% with Labour trailing on 25%. On the basis of these figures all three Labour leadership candidates would lose their seats to the SNP.

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yockel,

12/08/2008 14:24:55

And protection FROM shop assistants, petty officials, etc.?

How about proposing a civilized society instead of just another rule.

Silly me, that might reduce that 25% labour voters.

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a proud doonhamer,

Dumfries 12/08/2008 18:07:18

YouGov poll, commissioned by the SNP, conducted 6-8 August, sample 1,028.
Scottish Parliament constituency vote [change from May 2007 in brackets]:

SNP: 44% [+11]
Labour: 25% [-7]
Lib Dem: 14% [-2]
Con: 13% [-4]
Other: 4% [+2]

Applying these figures to the Weber Shandwick Scotland Votes model, the SNP would win 58 of Scotland's 73 Holyrood first-past-the-post seats.
SNP - 58 constituency seats (plus 37)
Labour - 8 constituency seats (minus 29)
LibDems - 6 constituency seats (minus 5)
Tories - 1 constituency seat (minus 3)

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a proud doonhamer,

Dumfries 12/08/2008 18:07:36

According the Scotland Votes predictor, 44% constituency vote would give the SNP 58 seats.

In the last election, all of the major parties lost an average of 2% to the minor parties with the Greens getting about half of the minor party vote in the regional lists vote.

Using the constituency vote minus 2% for the major parties and Greens with half of the minor party vote, the regional list could be expected to be similar to this and the totals to this

Scottish Parliament (129 seats)
73 Const. seats, 56 Reg seats, majority is 65 total

Party (Reg) (Const) (Total)

SNP 42 (6)(58) (64)
Labour 23 (24) (8) (32)
LibDem 12 (9) (6) (15)
Tories 11 (12) (1) (13)
Green 6 (5) (0) (5)
Others 6 (0) (0) (0)

It is currently showing the SNP one seat short of an overall majority. With currently one independent, Margo McNab, a former SNP member, could that single vote be the difference?

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