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Fast-food day of action hits back at low wage misery

Fast-food workers cooked up a recipe for a £10 minimum wage yesterday with a day of action in London.

Activists blitzed takeaway outlets on south London’s Brixton Road in a protest against jobs paying as little as £2.73 per hour to apprentices.

Catering union BFAWU national president Ian Hodson said the rates were robbing workers of a proper wage and youngsters of “genuine training.”

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