Petition updateTopshop: Pay your cleaners the living wageFantastic protest at Topshop on Saturday 12th March

Maria Susana Benavidez GuamanLondres, ENG, United Kingdom
Mar 15, 2016
Hello everyone,
I just wanted to briefly update you on the protest that my union United Voices of the World organised on Saturday 12th March at Topshop's flagship store in Oxford Street where I work. Here is a short video of the action. Please watch and share it widely.
www.facebook.com/uvwunion/videos/1026751520726420/?pnref=story
It was a great success. Around 200 people attended, which is a really high number for this type of protest, and thousands of members of the public including Topshop customers expressed their strong support for our demand for a living wage.
As you can see we also went to John Lewis on Oxford Street, where the cleaners who are also members of my trade union are paid poverty wages and inexplicably excluded from the John Lewis Partnership model which means they don't get a share in the famous John Lewis annual bonus which every other “partner” does.
It seems that the only person that doesn't think we deserve a Living Wage at Topshop is Philip Green who, by the way, paid himself a £1.2 billion dividend a few years ago which is the equivalent of the combined salaries of around 100, 000 cleaners and shop-floor sales assistants at Topshop. To top it off he didn't even pay any tax on that amount because it was received by his tax exiled wife, Lady Green.
For those that don't have Facebook, here is the same video on Youtube
www.facebook.com/uvwunion/videos/1026751520726420/?pnref=story
Here are also some pictures from the demonstration which you may like.
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1026436264091279.1073741847.703269199741322&type=3&pnref=story
I would like to thank each and every one of you for your support so far. This petition has now received over 30,000 signatures in just one week. I will keep you posted on any further developments.
Thank you so much.
Susana
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