Waterstones staff testified to cutting back on food in order to afford rent as they travelled across the country to deliver a 9,300-signature petition to the chain’s London headquarters, calling for the introduction of a living wage.
I have never been surrounded by so many knowledgable and highly educated people as when I was at Waterstones, nor been so poor. Idea that a ‘stimulating job’ somehow makes up for crippling poverty is offensive.
While bookshops are shrinking & disappearing off the high streets, due to the tax avoiding Amazon & because shareholders demand a bigger profit than last year, the top executives of Waterstones get paid millions & ordinary Britons get treated like machinery. What can go wrong?
get another Job then, that's how it works! 🙄
The cost of living is far too high in the UK.