MORE than 250,000 workers were self-isolating last month without decent sick pay or any income at all, a new study suggests.
And the TUC has said that reducing the self-isolation period to five days will not fix the country’s “sick pay problem.”
The union organisation said workers on low or no sick pay face the impossible choice of self-isolating and facing hardship or putting food on the table but potentially spreading the virus.
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
KEVAN NELSON reveals how, through its Organising to Win strategy, which has launched targeted campaigns like Pay Fair for Patient Care, Britain’s largest union bucked the trend of national decline by growing by 70,000 members in two years
