Revolting social workers: workload pressures are universal and we should express concerns.

Social workers are revolting again, it seems. Here is a press report about Whitinsville (a small town somewhere in Massachusetts), where there social workers are protesting about high caseloads. See: banners and marches.

Does this mean that the stereotype of social workers all being oppressive agents of the state is wrong? Or the stereotype that they're  all left-wing radicals is right? Or is it just producer interests dominating the local government concern for getting on with the job?

You can stereotype all such actions, and the press report from the Milford Daily News only gives the practitioners' side: obviously someone where has a good eye for press relations.

But whatever, professionals are entitled to make the case for adequate resources, and it's right that the public should be aware of their failure to pay enough taxes to support services that if they thought about it most people would think are necessary. It's a worldwide (and continuing) problem, but that doesn't mean that when it comes up (again and again and again) we should just accept the imposition of uncaring niggardliness in providing serviecs, which need to be thoughtful, flexible and responsive to need.

Link to the press report