Wigan depot

Background reading: JJB Sports employee and union organiser Chris Riley is sacked after organising strike action at the JJB Sports Wigan depot

All sorts protest outside JJB Sports stores against the sacking of JJB Sports employee and union organiser Chris Riley

The protest outside the Shepherd's Bush JJB Sports store is quiet until mall Security turns up to try and move the protestors on. Security is two weedy-looking, middle-aged guys who are wearing dark jackets, light trousers, plain shoes, and old and cloudy plastic badges.

The protest isn't huge at this point - maybe ten people altogether, at least three of whom are not protestors, but SWP worker-bees, who have clearly been pressed into putting an hour in at the protest, to try and shift leftover copies of this week's Socialist Worker - but the two security guys still look a bit worn on it. Being paid bugger-all to protect JJB Sports stores from people who are protesting about being paid bugger-all to work in JJB Sports stores probably does get on your wick towards the end of the week.

Life doesn't improve too much when they try to assert themselves, either.