Jeremy Corbyn faces fresh wave of embarrassment after Glastonbury bosses are slammed ‘for exploiting zero hours contract workers’
Labour leader addressed thousands of festivalgoers and slammed the corporate world's use of zero hour workers
JEREMY Corbyn has faced a fresh wave of embarrassment after the Glastonbury festival was accused of shamefully exploiting zero hours contract workers.
The hard left Labour leader relished addressing a giant crowd at the annual Somerset event last weekend.
But it was claimed that 700 workers hired for two weeks of litter clearing
This year’s good weather and on-site litter crews meant there was far less rubbish to clear up than expected.
Organisers were accused of taking advantage of the workers – many of them immigrants – by leaving three quarters out of pocket and stranded in the countryside.
Mr Corbyn has vowed to fight immoral bosses and even told the Glastonbury crowd that young people need not “accept low wages and insecurity as just part of life”.
Glastonbury boss and local farmer Michael Eavis even appeared on the main pyramid stage alongside Mr Corbyn.
Video footage also emerged of sacked workers demanding to be fed before they were forced to leave the campsite.
Workers had travelled to Somerset from countries as far away as the Czech Republic, Spain, Poland and Latvia.
“We found out quite soon that there was not as much garbage as usual, so there was less work.
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“The organisers have to have known that there was not enough work for that amount of people.
“No one let us know until yesterday afternoon, they just put up a list of the 100 people who were able to keep working.”
Mr Corbyn’s spokesman said: “Labour is committed to ending zero hour contracts, which was included in our manifesto, and the next Labour government will end zero hour contracts”.
The festival’s representatives did not want to comment on the record.