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Pub chain boss Tim Martin spoke at an event on lousy jobs alongside Esther McVey and Iain Duncan Smith, days before facing strike action by his own workers. SOLOMON HUGHES reports
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WORKERS at pub chain JD Wetherspoon joined crew from McDonald’s and TGI Friday’s and riders from UberEats this week for an unprecedented day of strike action.
It was a rebellion against low pay, zero-hours contracts, phoney self-employment and other abuses in the fast-food and service sector.
Earlier this week, one of the bigger meetings on the Conservative fringe, addressed by both Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey former work and pensions secretary and big man on the Tory right Iain Duncan Smith, considered the big question of “Is the Conservative Party making work pay?”
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