Stable job- no wages!
Socialist Organiser1982 1982-02-11Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 15 →
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£s for a 60-hour week. great job. eh? That's what one young groom earned, according to the Low Pay Unit:
Their survey on the wages and conditions of the 20,000 (mainly girls) working in stables reveals that halt of them earned less than £30 a week and 10% were paid less than £10. That's for well over 40 hours.
Sit out of seven work over 40 hours, with half working between 41 and 50 hours and another third working 51-60 hours.
Many got no holidays at all and those that did were very lucky to get up to two weeks oft. Lots of girls take the jobs because they like horses but then find as they get older they can't afford to keep the job. Employers are happy to see them go as they have no difficulty in finding new, younger super-exploitable labour. No doubt as the flood of unemployed youngsters swells they'll have even less ditficulty taking them 0) n at even lower wages. What an enviable prospect, the choice of compulsory government training Or shovelling horse shit! Could you taste the difference?