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Co-op urges action as retail workers face growing abuse
THE government must take urgent measures to protect shopworkers in the face of rising violent attacks, the Co-op retailer urged today.
The company reveals that there were 2,500 incidents of verbal abuse and anti-social behaviour against its employees in recent months.
Six hundred of the incidents involved violence and one in four of the violent incidents involved a knife, gun or other weapon.
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