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SIR Philip Green’s apology to BHS employees isn’t good enough for the 11,000 workers “staring down the barrel of a gun and facing unemployment,” a shop workers’ union told the Star yesterday.
The billionaire owner of Arcadia retail group said sorry for the demise of the high-street chain during a joint select committee hearing involving the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department for Work and Pensions.
Trade union Usdaw, which represents retail and distribution workers, said the apology the workers only received because Mr Green is being grilled by MPs over the company’s collapse is “simply not good enough.”
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Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street