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Big business making a killing from Covid in Scotland
STUC calls for a ‘people’s recovery’ to protect workers from profiteers

By Derek Kotz
Industrial reporter

BANKERS, big business and landlords in Scotland are making a killing from the Covid-19 crisis, according to research by the STUC published today.

Online retail giants, some manufacturers, fund managers, property owners and the already well-off are revealed to be the big winners from the pandemic by the report, titled Who’s Winning From Covid?

Banks, landlords and utility companies have bagged a “significant proportion” of the financial support provided by the Scottish government, while structural shifts in Scotland’s economy have hit employment and the low-paid hardest, it says.

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