
The Chep Strike Shows How Workers Can Win
After working through the pandemic, workers at Chep in Manchester were offered a miserly pay deal. They rejected it, embarked on the longest strike in their union’s history – and this week, they won.
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Ella Glover is a freelance journalist with bylines in Vice, Huck, and the Overtake.
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