‘Enough is enough’: wave of strikes led by ‘fantastic’ women, says Frances O’Grady

Frances O’Grady has accused Rishi Sunak’s government of having ‘a bit of a 1950s attitude around women at work – where women work for love’. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

This winter’s wave of strike action will be powered by “a generation of women who are saying enough is enough” because the critical jobs they do are undervalued, the outgoing TUC general secretary, Frances O’Grady, has said.

As she steps down after a decade as the TUC’s first female figurehead, O’Grady said on Friday that thousands of women who worked on the frontline during the pandemic were now saying to ministers, “don’t take us for granted”.