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‘We see you, and we hear you’: Downing Street protest for low-paid workers

The contempt for cleaners and security guards revealed by Sue Gray moved a trade union for the low-paid and migrants to disturb ‘wine time’

‘We see you, and we hear you’: Downing Street protest for low-paid workers
Stark truth | Anita Mureithi/openDemocracy
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“Justice for Emanuel” rang outside the Downing Street gates this evening as demonstrators gathered to chant, grieve and protest against the poor treatment of security staff, cleaners and other low-paid government workers, exposed in the Sue Gray report.

They also remembered Emanuel Gomes, a cleaner at the Ministry of Justice, who died on 23 April 2020 after contracting COVID-19.

Despite falling ill, he continued to work his outsourced £9.08-an-hour job because he thought he couldn’t afford to take time off.