A major consequence of the 2008 economic crisis and the era of devastating austerity imposed in the UK by the Tory Government since 2010 has been an attack on workers rights.
This has profoundly weakened them and fuelled a rise in self-employment, zero hours contracts and the gig economy. Those gaining their livelihood from these precarious avenues in the UK and all over the world have been left in tenuous financial situations by the necessary shutdown. In many cases, the pandemic caused workers’ incomes to completely evaporate overnight. The COVID-19 pandemic and the omnipresent threat of climate change have […]
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