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Council workers jobless after challenging colleague who said asylum-seekers ‘should be shot’, GMB says

COUNCIL workers who challenged a colleague for saying asylum-seekers “should be shot” have lost their jobs, their union said today.

GMB warned Guildford Borough Council could now face legal action.

It criticised the authority’s response to staff complaints over a temporary worker’s remarks which they felt were “racist, homophobic, transphobic and anti-immigrant.”

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