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Can unions turn the Covid crisis into a ‘1945 moment’?
CWU leader DAVE WARD speaks to Ben Chacko about building collectivism and challenging a system that doesn’t work for ordinary people
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FOR CWU leader Dave Ward, the crises Britain faces as it emerges from the Covid nightmare must be a “1945 moment.”
This is not just an analogy for far-reaching change. As the communications union’s motion Building Collectivism points out, we not only need to “rebuild from a crisis but to tackle the very same issues we face today that the Beveridge report highlighted then.”
Eight decades after the Attlee government laid the foundations of the welfare state, Britain is stalked by poverty, hunger, a shredded social security system, public services hollowed out by underfunding and outsourcing. It’s time for a “new social settlement.”
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