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Article

30 Sep 2004

Author:
Mark Barnsley, Red Pepper

Know Your Enemy: ‘Whiplash’ Wilko

With no pension or trade union rights, no minimum wage, no holidays and no sick pay, [prisoners] represent an ideal workforce for greedy and ruthless companies like Wilkinson, which uses them to do its packing work, paying them around £1 per day...The company now claims it is helping to ‘rehabilitate prisoners and increase their employability'.