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BUILDING workers will today target a Lincolnshire manufacturer refusing to pay the independently set living wage.
Members of construction union Ucatt will demonstrate from noon to 3pm outside kitchen manufacturer Wren Living at Barton-on-Humber.
The living wage outside London is £7.85 an hour, but the 200 workers in the factory, which assembles and distributes kitchens, are being paid only £6.70 per hour.
The demonstration is part of Ucatt’s national campaign against low pay, targeting employers paying below the living wage.
Ucatt Yorkshire regional secretary Rob Morris said: “The blight of low pay in the construction industry is despicable.
Companies are making huge profits while workers are forced to work long hours in highly physically demanding roles, in all weathers, for peanuts.”
Ucatt local organiser John McIntyre said he hadn’t had any response after his request to meet bosses to discuss the issue.
