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BOSSES must be forced to support workers suffering from the “unpredictable” health impacts of long Covid so they are not under pressure to return to work early, Usdaw members demanded today.
Delegates on the opening day of the retail union’s 2022 conference backed a motion which called for extra help for those suffering “life changing consequences” due to the poorly understood condition.
It urged the union’s national executive council to lobby the government and employers to implement more flexible absence policies for sufferers of long Covid, which affects 1.3 million people in Britain, according to the Office for National Statistics.
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
