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Any other business

The new world of work is a jungle but don’t call workers ‘animals’

17 September 2016

9:00 AM

17 September 2016

9:00 AM

The TUC general secretaryFrances O’Grady doesn’t get a lot of airtime. Compared with predecessors a generation ago, such as Vic Feather and Len Murray, she is all but invisible. But in her Congress speech at Brighton on Monday, she struck a note that must have resonated with many of the public who have no idea who she is when she spoke of ‘greedy businesses that treat workers like animals’.

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