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Six million workers earn less than the Living Wage – a recommended rate set by the independent Living Wage Foundationti att £9159.15 an hour in London and £7.85 elsewhere. You say David Cameron and George Osborne’s promise to make work pay is a joke...
Many companies can well afford to pay employees a fair wage if shareholders and fatcats took less for themselves. But this will never happen as long as the Tories run the country.
That is why we need a strong Labour Party and unions to stand up to this greedy, self-serving bunch. S Mayall, Wallasey, Merseyside
I was disgusted to read that six million people in this country are being paid less than the Living Wage. Osborne and the rest of the Tories are trying their level best to ruin Britain.
Why should MPs pay themselves top wages and members of the House of Lords get £300 a day for signing in?
To make things fairer the public should vote on how much MPs and peers should be paid. Michael Maher Ashton-under-Lyne, Gtr Manchester
It’s all very well for Steve Turner of Unite to demand a £10-an-hour mandatory Living Wage, but how many companies can afford to pay their staff this much?
Many companies would go bankrupt or else they will just cut workers’ hours to get round any legislation. The unions don’t live in the real world. It’s better to have a low-paid job than no job. Frank Fletcher, Scunthorpe North East Lincs
We are allowing low pay to continue when protesting gets things done. Just look at the outcry following the drowning of a refugee boy on a Turkish beach – it got Cameron moving and he promised Britain would take more refugees.
So, why aren’t we on the streets demonstrating until something is done about the Living Wage? We can’t have Cameron and his cronies walking all over us. Julie Appleby Darlington, Co Durham