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Workers’ inquiries: knowledge for power Submitted by AWL on 20 April, 2021 - 6:02
Author: Editorial
A swirl of billions, and a trickle of pennies. A great effort of science to control Covid, with wildly uneven vaccine supplies and patents and production gripped by profiteering billionaires. Huge subsidies for some in the pandemic, while others lose jobs or have to try to self-isolate with no or little pay and in crowded housing.
Where are the billions going? Who’s left with pennies? We need to know. We need to inquire.
The Safe and Equal campaign, which Workers’ Liberty supports, recently exposed the fact that workers in the virus Test Centres had no right to isolation pay at all, or only Statutory Sick Pay of £96.35 a week.
Ferry workers demand full sick and isolation pay
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MP McMahon blasts paltry sick pay rise Date published: 09 April 2021
Oldham West and Royton MP Jim McMahon
Oldham West and Royton MP Jim McMahon has blasted the Conservative Government for failing to learn lessons from the areas hit hardest by the pandemic, after Statutory Sick Pay rose 50p to £96.35 a week earlier in the week.
The small rise comes a year after the Health Secretary admitted that he couldn’t live on Statutory Sick Pay, which works out around a fifth of the average weekly wage.
Mr McMahon said: “Time and again over the last year MPs, experts and campaigners have been warning the government that they will never get a hold of transmission if there isn’t the proper financial support in place for people to be able to self-isolate.
A disgrace : Ministers under fire for withholding £19m of Covid support for Scots taxi drivers MINISTERS are under fire for withholding taxi support cash as drivers face a postcode lottery of support during the pandemic. Unite Scotland is furious after it was told that the an underspend of £19m on the vital fund has been reallocated - despite an original mix up over who is eligible. It is estimated around 25,333 eligible drivers out of an estimated 38,000 drivers across Scotland applied for the £1,500 grant. It comes after the launch of the fund at the start of the year was branded farcical because it emerged that drivers on universal credit would not be able to apply.