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Who cares for the Birmingham care workers?
The dedicated, mainly female, care workers in Birmingham fear the council wants to force as many of them as possible out of their jobs and then privatise what’s left. HEATHER WAKEFIELD shines a light on their story
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SOME 300 highly skilled but low-paid care workers employed by Labour-run Birmingham City Council are engaged in one of Britain’s longest-running industrial disputes.
Yet far from hitting all the headlines, the Unison members’ 80 periods of strike action since April 2017 and three successful strike ballots have garnered little coverage in the mainstream press and media — unlike a dispute and strike among refuse collectors in the city last year, which was settled and plastered across local and national headlines.
So what is the strike about and why hasn’t it been big news? One of the answers to that might well be that the strikers’ story is well-known among the 1.5 million workers in England who currently care for our old and vulnerable citizens at home or in residential care.
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