Unemployed had to sleep under bridge to work for Jubilee

[petergriffin]

The future is now:
Unpaid jubilee stewards: Prescott accuses government of exploitation | UK news | guardian.co.uk

[xoggoth]

As it says, there was dry sheltered accomodation. For a few days, no problem at all for fit people. Prescott is an utter arse and it's mostly his government that is responsible for the serious long term exploitation of trafficked migrants, some of whom are virtual slaves.

[TimberWolf]

Sleeping in a tent is no hardship, but being made to do 14 hour shifts, unpaid, is beyond Victorian.

[Mich the Tester]

Under a bridge? Luxury!

[SupremeSpod]

Oh, hello...

But Prescott said the "very bad incident" raised "many questions about the use of unpaid labour". Prescott, who is running to be the elected police and crime commissioner for the Humberside police force area, called on Theresa May to investigate whether the company had broken the security industry's own employment standards and is urging the government to review the company's contract for the Olympics.

In the letter, Prescott said the situation raised "very serious questions" about the "suitability of using private security contractors to do frontline policing instead of trained police officers" and that the company had shown a "blatant disregard for the care of its workers".

[oscarose]

Sleeping in a tent is no hardship, but being made to do 14 hour shifts, unpaid, is beyond Victorian.

Capitalism yields winners and losers.
HTH

[xoggoth]

It's quite an experience sleeping on the streets. For a little while.

[TimberWolf]

Makes you wonder how motivated an unpaid security person is going to be if something kicked off. Er, no I'm not paid enough to take one for the team, I'll sit this one out.

[oscarose]

Makes you wonder how motivated an unpaid security person is going to be if something kicked off. Er, no I'm not paid enough to take one for the team, I'll sit this one out.

Pay peanuts, get monkeys.
HTH

[darmstadt]

In the letter, Prescott said the situation raised "very serious questions" about the "suitability of using private security contractors to do frontline policing instead of trained police officers"

And thats the crux of it, you can't use trained police officers as successive governments have cut back on the policing budget which means that there are less and less police officers to go around. Every single government since Thatcher wants to privatise the UK as they think its cheaper but in the long run, it ain't...