Accomodation for rent £550 pm, share room with 10 others, share toilet with 25

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Outrageous.... UK SLAVE TRADE

The Cleaners will be working 35 hours a week, for £212. The cleaning company has kindly sorted out accomodation, you get a bunk bed in a portakabin with 10 others (both sexes) and share the shower with 75 others. For all this they are charged £126.

How are they getting away with this?

No wonder the jobs were not advertised in this country, they would not have got the 'rent' i.e £1260 a week for a portakabin.

And they are forbidden from talking to the press as well...

Unfortunately this is one of the joys of globalisation. An employer has the pick of the entire EU from which to choose his labour force. Naturally he will choose those who will accept the lowest pay. If you're angry about this then you ought really to be angry about the EU and the absurdities of the citizens of Europe competing for the same jobs while having radically different standards of living.

This is an absolute disgrace.

I have worked in school/college holidays, doing farm work/piece work, and your take home pay was relative to the amount of effort you put in. This is just avoidance of paying the legal minium wage by charging extortionate rents. I think it is dreadful that the local council passed the planning application for these dwellings. I have a garage the same size as the portakabin; I can imagine how far my application would get, if I wanted to use it as a mixed-sex dorm.....

It is slave labour. I'm ashamed of this country.

Olympics? More like International Festival of Profit and Exploitation. So over them. I was offered a pair of free tickets for an event in the the stadium last week, and I turned them down. I have no interest in setting foot in the Olympic, or spending a single penny within the complex.

A friend in Blackheath has a small independent shop with an attractive display in front of the store of fruit and veg. The LOCOG see this display as 'advertising and promotion of business' within a mile of an Olympic venue, despite the fact it has been there for nearly 10 years.

He can't afford to fight the legal might of the LOCOG, so will have to remove it for 8 weeks.

How is this meant to stimulate the economy if genuine business displays can't remain in place?

I'm going to boycott the whole thing. I was anyway but still...

Unless a company gives an obscene amount of money to the LOCOG for 'sponsorship' then their goods will be unbranded at the games. Even the cars that transport the guests around are German...