Working conditions in retail - Confessions of a store grunt

andrew
Sun, 06 Feb 2000 15:49:03 +0000
MANDATE, Retail, Wages, Work, Workplace, National, Newspaper, Analysis

AT THE MOMENT there are approximately 236,400 people working in the wholesale and retail trade. Most of us working in this sector are badly paid, as unskilled labour usually is. Recently Roches Stores office workers went out on strike for better pay. Some of them were being paid as little as £4.16 an hour. They were successful and got a 25% pay rise.