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WORKERS hit a jackpot yesterday after they forced high street bookmakers BetFred to pay out almost half a million pounds in redundancy payments.
A total of £496,979 was paid out to 88 low-paid and mostly female workers after they, along with their union Unite, launched a successful social media campaign to publicly shame the company into coughing up the cash.
Unite regional officer Donna Kassim said “together with the workforce we mounted a social media campaign to shame BetFred bosses into doing the right thing.”
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