TUC calls for immediate public inquiry into Covid deaths

Union body says 15,000 people of working age have died from Covid in England and Wales

The Trades Union Congress is calling for an immediate public inquiry into the handling of the Covid pandemic, insisting it should examine whether workers were kept safe enough after about 15,000 people of working age died from Covid in England and Wales.

The GMB union said the prime minister’s reported comments that he would rather see “bodies piled high” than approve a third lockdown “shows why a public inquiry is needed now”. It said its members “deserve to know why they were put in harm’s way unnecessarily and if the PM think it’s OK for them to die”.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3xnsnNs

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