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Where extreme working conditions meet a call to action.  

The UK Supreme Court ruled in favour of 35 Uber drivers and now Uber is to reclassify 70,000 drivers as workers.  At the top end of town, 13 Goldman graduates wrote an open letter asking for a reduction in their average 95 hour working week.  Covid lock down, cooking 3 meals a day, housework and home schooling has created a sharp rise in household hours worked with rising discontent.

Wednesday is Budget day and a day when we ponder the financial cost of Covid.  The government unleashed close to £400bn fighting the pandemic and saving lives.  No one disputes this was the correct course of action.  But the question arises - who pays for this? The last financial crisis in 2008 left the tax payer picking up the bill and years of austerity for those least able to afford it.  

Does the Chancellor have another way? 

Why have financial values come to be considered more important than human ones? 

In the celebrated annual Reith lectures ⁽¹⁾, Mark Carney looks at how by prioritizing financial over human value, we have contributed to the climate crisis, recent credit crisis and today’s pandemic.