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Article

31 May 2007

Author:
War on Want

African staff attack UK firm over racism and poverty pay

[B]lack [Group 4 Securicor] guards at Johannesburg airport complain that white supervisors call them “kaffirs” and “monkeys”, according to a new report from a fact-finding delegation to Southern Africa...The report - Who Protects the Guards?...reveals that G4S pays workers so little in Malawi that their daily meals consist of only bread, they live in homes without electricity or running water and cannot afford to meet their children’s school or medical fees...War on Want trade unions officer Jackie Simpkins said: “The poor wages and conditions suffered by G4S African workers beggar belief...The British government must introduce binding regulation over UK firms' behaviour towards its overseas workers."