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Thursday 24 March 2011

London's slave labour!

I was up and out very early the other morning and on the streets and buses were the vast army of African, Afro-Caribbean, Asian, Latin and South American  and East European office cleaners, domestics, shop workers etc who tend to go unnoticed and uncared for in our society. According to research done in 2007 there where approx 80,000 contract cleaners working at Canary Wharf alone, and although the majority earned the minimum wage and above they were still being paid under the London Living Wage of £7.05 per hour! (it is now £7.85) This exploitation, and the lack of representation, was the main reason that 'Living Wage' Campaign was set up in 2001 and since that time they have won over £40m in additional income for workers and have basically highlighted the plight of migrant workers in London.

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