{"id":539,"date":"2014-08-07T10:45:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T09:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=539"},"modified":"2014-08-07T14:10:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T13:10:52","slug":"life-poverty-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"Life on Poverty Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>In the run up to London hospitality workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00c2\u01418.80 living wage action on 08\/08 (August 8), Unite has produced a haunting exclusive film about the harsh realities of living in London on low pay.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a series of anonymous interviews, hospitality workers tell their shocking stories of having to make do earning \u00c2\u01416.31 an hour in one of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most expensive cities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One catering worker tells of how he has been stuck at the National Minimum Wage for 26 years.<br \/>\nFacing rising food prices in the capital, he agonises over the struggle to buy items many of us take for granted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bI was out with my wife the other day, and she said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0098We can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t buy anything today,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 so you have to be very cautious,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he explains. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bI don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have any money to pay the mortgage, so I applied for a loan but I was rejected.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Still, he contends there are many other low wage earners who are worse off. He tells of a friend who is a dishwasher. He works 60-hour weeks\u00e2\u20ac\u201d10-hour shifts without break&#8211;and brings home a paltry \u00c2\u0141300. Not being able to afford to live in the city, he has to travel more than two hours each way just to get to his job. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bI feel quite fortunate compared to him,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he says.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As viewers hear story after story of heart-breaking struggle, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re given a visual tour of the London low wage workers will work for but will never experience: the posh hotels, the five-star restaurants, the exorbitantly priced tourist attractions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you were in any doubt about the pervasiveness of low-wage work in one of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wealthiest cities, look no further than this film. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll never look at a hotel the same way again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the run up to London hospitality workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00c2\u01418.80 living wage action on 08\/08 (August 8), Unite has produced a haunting exclusive film about the harsh realities of living in London on low pay. &nbsp; In a series of anonymous interviews, hospitality workers tell their shocking stories of having to make do earning \u00c2\u01416.31 an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[23],"wps_subtitle":"New film, London: the greatest city if you can afford it, exposes the scandal of low-wage work in the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s outrageously profitable hospitality industry","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}