Modern day slave labour

[Jeros]

www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/04/jubilee-pageant-unemployed

Wow....

Those that did get paid however did better than my modern apprenticeship though. I made about £1.60 per hour back when I did mine.

 

[cHodAX]

If true then there needs to be a public enquiry, bussed in from far away and having to sleep rough? Heads will roll.

 

[SilverHood]

www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/04/jubilee-pageant-unemployed

Wow....

Those that did get paid however did better than my modern apprenticeship though. I made about £1.60 per hour back when I did mine.

From what I understand, those that wanted to get paid got paid. Those on job seekers allowance wanted job experience, but taking a wage meant losing their allowance, so they asked to be paid for free.

 

[Raven]

...and wasn't it one coach that arrived at 3am instead of 5am? So a single coach load of people arriving two hours early, meaning that people had to wait in the "cold" for two hours. Oh the horror!

I would look for community work if I was on the dole too, fair play to them. Unlucky the driver fucked it up.

Nice how the Guardian twists it though, what a terrible newspaper. Are any of them credible any more?

 

[Hawkwind]

If true then there needs to be a public enquiry, bussed in from far away and having to sleep rough? Heads will roll.

Why an expensive Public Inquiry? It is a privately owned security firm. If they broke the law then they should be charged accordingly and then a decision made if their Olympic contracts should be given to another company.

Public Inquiries are mostly motivated for political reasons and a complete waste of public money. Look at the Leveson Inquiry months of expensive suits interviewing half the celebrities in the UK and from abroad for what? Just so the politicians are not seen to be making a decision. They know that the papers need oversight and that it cannot be from Parliament. Self governing oversight from the news media is not acceptable. Do we really need to spend 855k (Jul-Oct) + 1,993k (Nov-Jan) to come up with a working idea acceptable to the public?

Side tracked somewhat but I hope you see the point

Link for costs on Leveson Inquiry

 

[old.Tohtori]

Slave labour never went away, it just got capitalised

 

[Ormorof]

im just amazed that they agreed to sleep under a bridge... cos that seems like a fair and reasonable thing to do as an employee

 

[Scouse]

im just amazed that they agreed to sleep under a bridge... cos that seems like a fair and reasonable thing to do as an employee

Maybe they should have held a riot?

 

[soze]

So was it a case of bus arrived early so the boss told those that wanted a couple of hours shut eye to sleep under the bridge? If so then who really cares. It is pathetic that the news have managed to make a story of this. Do "the public" really think they should of magicked up 4 star hotels from nothing?

 

[rynnor]

So was it a case of bus arrived early so the boss told those that wanted a couple of hours shut eye to sleep under the bridge? If so then who really cares. It is pathetic that the news have managed to make a story of this. Do "the public" really think they should of magicked up 4 star hotels from nothing?

Yeah - and reading the article most of the complaints seem weather related - soaking wet, muddy campsite etc. etc.

 

[Hawkwind]

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/dubai-s-tourism-revenues-hit-4-36bn-in-2011-448896.html

Tourism figures up 10% in 2011, guest nights by 23% to 33 Million. Average hotel occupancy of 74% and there are some pretty crappy ones here to cater for the Sub continent market.

 

[Turamber]

Slave labour never went away, it just got capitalised

Slave Labour then?

 

[Cyradix]

If the bus arrived early why not sleep on the bus??

 

[Shagrat]

exactly what i was thinking.

or did none of them have the gumption to say, "er, hang on a minute, its 3 in the morning and theres noone here to meet us. Can you sort out somewhere for us to go for a coffee/sit down" before the bus buggered off?

 

[Wij]

Should have pushed them benefit scrounging bastards off the bridge, not gave them a place to sleep.

New troll is same as old troll

 

[cHodAX]

exactly what i was thinking.

or did none of them have the gumption to say, "er, hang on a minute, its 3 in the morning and theres noone here to meet us. Can you sort out somewhere for us to go for a coffee/sit down" before the bus buggered off?

Gumption? No, they didn't want to complain because once on Work Programme you can have your benefits suspended should the work provider finger you as a trouble maker.