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MORE than 200 people rallied in Manchester on Saturday to declare: “We won’t pay for the crisis.”
Greater Manchester has been forced into a Tier 3 lockdown, the government’s highest level of restrictions, which has shut down hundreds of businesses and led to hundreds of thousands of workers being laid off.
People on furlough are receiving only 67 per cent of their normal pay, after Chancellor Rishi Sunak scrapped the original Job Retention Scheme that paid 80 per cent of laid-off workers’ wages.
Saturday’s rally in Piccadilly Gardens was organised by Manchester People’s Assembly.
Chris Neville, one of the organisers, said: “The theme was that Manchester will not pay for the coronavirus crisis.
“We now have the lockdown with a lack of financial support for laid-off workers and everything else that goes with it, including the end of the ban on evictions and with people struggling to cope when they are laid off.”
