YANA PETTICREW explains what’s behind the strike and how the entire sector rests on super-exploiting an unorganised workforce

OUR trade union movement faces very real challenges over the coming months and years.
We are experiencing a cost-of-living crisis not of our making. As inflation goes through the roof, profits are sky-high and the only thing not rising is our members’ wages.
Many of us work in, and all of us use, public services which have been systematically underfunded and fragmented, many subject to privatisation.



