At Manton Sports Club in Worksop, TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady is rallying the crowd.
“We have a Prime Minister more worried about saving his own job than worrying about other people’s,” she tells a packed meeting. “Meanwhile four million children are living in poverty, and most have at least one parent in work. We don’t just say we deserve better for working people, we demand it.”
The cost-of-living crisis is hurting people locally. Pay packets in Worksop, Notts, are set to be worth £440-a-year less this year according to new TUC analysis – as inflation outstrips the increase in wages.
