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HOME care workers are suffering a “mounting mental health toll” after tens of thousands of workers quit in frustration at poverty pay and exploitation at the hands of profit-driven privateers.
Public service union Unison says that more than two-thirds of home care workers have reported declining mental health in a survey.
The social care sector is short of 170,000 workers, meaning those who are still in the industry have to soak up extra work.
Burnham urged to create publicly-provided national care service before the end of the parliament, and to keep his promise to ditch neoliberalism
Unison national officer CLARE WILLIAMS spoke to the Morning Star about the union’s priority campaigns and why they will not let up just because the Prime Minister has changed