Organising in the care sector
During the Covid-19 pandemic, one of the more heartening signs has been how people are demanding that care workers get far more recognition and reward. The labour movement needs to fight for full public ownership and proper funding of the care sector and for care workers to win radically better pay, conditions, and respect. On the moral level it is one of the most eye-watering injustices of our system that most care workers are paid the £8.74 per hour minimum wage or little more for risking their lives in this pandemic, and often the reward to them and their families is £95.85p per week...