Working conditions have deteriorated since 2008 in the capital,where pay inequality is greater than anywhere else. But it doesn’t have to be this wayEven in a climate of enormous squeezes on public sector budgets we shouldn’t buy low pay and destitute conditions as a given.
There are solutions: final year the senior executive of a firm with large public sector contracts acknowledged to me that if local councils made it an iron cast condition of all contract bids that proposals must meet a specified, high wage threshold for workers, and including cleaners and care workers,then businesses would have no choice but to relent. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com