Sharon Graham explains why workers not bosses are what keeps the country going in just 29 words
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Unite general secretary Sharon Graham has illustrated exactly how workers, rather than bosses are what keep the country going.
In a speech at this year’s TUC Congress in Brighton, Graham laid it out clearly: “If the bosses went out on strike, no one would notice. It’s only when workers go out that people notice, because you are the ones that do the work.”
Graham made the comments in a debate on a motion on industrial and economic policy at the Congress. The motion – which delegates supported – will see the TUC push the government for “an ambitious industrial strategy to deliver good well-paid jobs and reindustrialise Britain”, a “reversal of public sector austerity by paying for more day-to-day spending with a wealth tax”, and “public ownership of our energy and water infrastructure, to cut bills and stop profiteering”.
Chris Jarvis is head of strategy and development at Left Foot Forward
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