They don’t deserve jobs after that . Striking in the middle of a major event will not solve anything . If they had back bone and proper reason to strike they should have done it prior to or after the event .

To be fair you cant really complain if you didnt study in school, didnt do something to better yourself so you could have good wages. What do they want…… to drive to work in BMW’s?

They don’t deserve a job because they are unhappy at being paid 6 pounds an hour instead of the recommended 8.30? And that they feel they are being bullied by managers because of their race and ethnicity?

London can run and pay for a multi billion event but only pays the people who clean up after it the very minimum.

@John Ryan. That’s the saddest comment ever mate.

Why? because you done the same?

@John
Unfortunately no, I haven’t done the same. But I know people who do cleaning jobs and I respect them for what they do. They help maintain hygiene wherever they work, make places look tidy so that when you walk in you feel at ease and not disgusted. And also you don’t know why they are doing this job. Maybe they are students working to help them sustain themselves. I know someone who is very well educated and is doing cleaning because there are no jobs for him. As for me, if ever am made redundant, I won’t feel shame to do a cleaning job as long there is food on the table. There’s no low job for uneducated or a better one for those who are lucky to have got an education. Every job is a job and we all depend on each other, whatever job we do, to survive in society. Imagine in what kind of kip you would be living if there were no cleaners on the planet. I doubt you would ever pick a broom or mop in your life because you think this will lower your status. In fact my friend, it’s not sad what you said in your comment but you have proved how cheap and uneducated you are as compared to those same cleaners whom you don’t even know and whom you have attacked indirectly as being uneducated.

It’s pretty simple if only you would take of the blinkers. A cleaning job requires no training, any one can do it and thus the low wage. Being an engineer (myself), required years of study and work to achieve that is why I get a good wage and will only go up. I think you’re the one that requires some education with your communist ideals.

Actually it’s democracy where anyone has a right to a say and fight for their welfare. I don’t think those guys are on strike and claiming a wage of 50k, but a reasonable amount that would represent their hard work Mr engineer. Imagine a world with only engineers! Where would you get food? Who will serve you at a restaurant? Who will pull the pint for you at your local? Who will give you credit for being an engineer? Those people deserve at least some respect and not be treated as uneducated. We ALL depend on each other as we all, in a way or the other, bring a contribution to society. Come down from your high horse Mr Engineer. By the way, “off” is spelt “O F F” and not “of”. Great basic education there. Am sure those cleaners can do better. Take it easy now and enjoy your ever rising huge pay while criticising others who want to better their living standard by requesting a minor increment.

Wow I made a simple spelling mistake. They’re on minimum wage, what more can they ask for when the vast majority of them didn’t bother there arse to make something of themselves. As for the other few that did try and didn’t make it well that’s just life, you play the cards you get. I wasn’t born a genius or with a silver spoon, I’m the son of a fisherman that left school after my junior cert that has worked his ass off to get where I am. Where would the justice be in a cleaner that has just coasted through life getting paid a wage similar to someone that has truly earned it. If I am on a high hoarse it’s because I climbed it, I didn’t get a lift. You sound like the type of person that has been handed everything and thinks that’s how life is.

Oh yea I forgot to add something. How do you think a farmer is able to grow crops or a bar man pull a pint? I would think all of the equipment was engineered by someone, wouldn’t you?

*horse….. Fecking iPad 3

And the cleaners, how do they go around their job with vacuous and other equipment? Engineers again I suppose. Thank them a lot because they are providing you with a job. At least show them some respect because they deserve it. As for being someone who was born with a silver spoon in the mouth….erm that’s surely not me. Am where I am due to my own efforts and determination. I have both, academic education and life education, unlike some others. And that is why I agree with those cleaners fighting for a DECENT wage. With your kind of mentality, I suppose you think everyone who are very well educated should have everything and those who don’t should be treated as slave. As you’ve said, minimum wage! Can you subsist on that kind of money IF you were them! I doubt so. I reiterate what I’ve said previously, they are not fighting to get the same wage as an engineer or other highly qualified individual, but only enough to commensurate with their work load, including all their difficulties and so on. Good you haven’t got a lift to be on that horse, but at least, as being someone who has supposedly gone through the ladders of life to be up there, where you claim you are now, we would suppose that you would be a little bit more considerate towards others with lesser IQ than you.

*horse….. Fecking iPad 3n

Right. So let’s agree they should be paid a decent wage.

Well it’s not as if they go into it thinking it won’t be dirty.

Yes. And they chose to ‘go into it’ having had the option of medicine, accountancy, law….. oh hang on!

Are you telling me people take jobs as cleaners and expect the working environment to be clean? Why do they think they are there?

Without a doubt one of my most hated sayings. No one is “lucky” to have a job. It is a basic human right to be able to earn a living, not a privilege. Fair play to the cleaners.

Can’t wait till this trolling trend is dead. No one is offended by these stupid comments anymore. Please find some new fad.

@gary – I know what you mean, the standard of trolling on the journal though is pretty bad anyway, hardly an ounce of thought goes into it, incredibly amateur. Still, i always think it gives the troll a little levity in what is otherwise must be a very mundane existence.

@Weir n Scarr, The truth hurts girls now accept the facts as stated in the british media in relation to this situation and stop throwing the toys out of your p.c. prams,