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

THE contempt and hypocrisy of the political elite has dazzled and amazed at a level never seen before the Covid-19 crisis.
The Tories’ continued smoke-and-mirror strategies and new-found passionate loyalty to NHS staff and key workers beggar belief.
In the CWU, our members are scared, being asked or forced to risk their lives and and the lives of their families without the necessary protection, whether through lack of protective wear or lack of government support.

As Reform UK threatens to capitalise on public anger, our Establishment politicians simply refuse to acknowledge their role in creating the very alienation that gives succour to Farage, writes CRAIG ANDERSON


