In the pandemic, the labour movement must fight to make us all: Safe and Equal!
The “Safe and Equal” campaign ( safeandequal.org ), publicly launched on 13 April is for equal rights to full self-isolation pay for all workers regardless of their employment status. In too many workplaces, agency staff are getting short shrift and being obliged to choose between going down to £94/week statutory sick pay, or coming into work sick or potentially contagious. Safe and Equal grew out of the work of activists at the East London Foundation Trust (ELFT) hospital, where a campaign of posters and letter-writing has already won big steps forward for self-isolation pay for agency and...