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Debenhams Pay Your Cleaners

Oxford St, London. Sat 22 Dec 2018



 The CAIWU banner states 'Defending Workers Since 2016 - Freedom - Equality - Solidarity'

 Crowds walked past the protest on the pavement in front of Oxford St on one of the busiest shopping days of the year

 

 

 

 Vuvuzelas can make a lot of noise

 

 

 

 

 

 The workers were on strike today for the London Living Wage - the real amount you need to live on in London

 

 Currently they are paid the minimum wage (What a deceiving government calls the Living Wage but isn't enough to live on)

 Alberto Durango has been one of the leaders in the fight to get a lviing wage for low paid workers

 

 

 

 As well as a living wage, workers also want to be treated with dignity & respect - as a passing bus puts it
  'Recognising me as someone not something'

 

 

 Alberto spoke occasionally to tell shoppers why the cleaners at Debenhams were on strike

 and in Spanish to the cleaners (and some tourists)

 

 

 

 

 

 Several people sopped for a while to dance when the cleaners played Latin-American music

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Others stopped to talk and show their support

I left the cleaners still protesting - they had begun their picket early in the morning

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