London (AFP) – "We are ghosts on the night shift," says Leandro Cristovao from Angola, who has worked the graveyard shift at a south London market for seven years.
In the last decade, Britain's nine-million-strong nighttime workforce has become increasingly reliant on migrants like Cristovao, as the number of UK-born workers doing night work shrinks. I talked to Akshata Kapoor journalist with AFP (UK & Ireland), among others, about why hashtag#migrant hashtag#nightshifters are not acknowledged for their work.
On the whole, this is a structural problem: temporal labour of migrants working the nightshift is not worthy of investment by today's capitalism. Which is why large corporations like hashtag#Heathrow* and hashtag#BritishAirways outsourcing to grabbers or 'penny-pinchers' like hashtag#OCS, fail to hold onto their promises to become 100% hashtag#LivingWage employers.
In this short film, 3 accounts of migrant hashtag#nightshifters are carved out of the darkness.
On the backdrop of this news, hashtag#migrant hashtag#cleaners strike hashtag#Heathrow* and all the while, the UK government is clamping down on overseas workers -- particularly for low-wage employees.
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