The Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW) is asking parliamentary candidates to protect Sunday opening hours and keep them at their six-hour li
It is asking people to lobby their candidates to make sure that this becomes an issue in May's general election.
So far 350 candidates have signed the pledge to keep Sunday opening hours as they are.
Ruth George is from the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers.
She told Premier's News Hour that the economic argument is not valid: "There's not an economic argument because if we had longer opening hours on Sundays it would simply spread the hours of opening and the amount of takings that a customer paid in a store over a longer period of time
"So it would increase the shop's expenses to open for longer but without increasing their takings.
"So in the end it's actually our members, the people who work in those stores, who would suffer."
Listen to Premier's Hannah Tooley speak to Ruth George here:
John Hannett, the USDAW General Secretary said: "Many staff have to work all day on Saturdays and need a small part of the weekend to spend time with family and friends, especially if their children are at school during the week."
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Article by Hannah Tooley
Hannah Tooley is a multimedia journalist for Premier.
