Now Just Stop Oil invade HARRODS: Security guards swoop as eco-zealots occupy sofas
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Now just let the oil invade HARRODS: security guards pounce as green fanatics occupy a £28,000 bed in ‘top people’s store’ (but remember to take your shoes off first)
- The group of women protesters entered the Knightsbridge store around 1 p.m.
- Two fanned out on a sofa while two others climbed onto a bed.
- The day comes when 50 Harrods workers are on strike over a pay dispute.
- The luxury store is also owned by Qatar, one of the world’s largest oil producers.
Just Stop Oil eco fans have walked out of Harrods after launching a protest inside the central London department store.
In video footage shared online, a team of security guards can be seen running towards two protesters who had fanned out on a sofa for sale.
One can be heard yelling ‘Get up, get out!’ as he warns them, they will be trespassing if they don’t leave of their own free will.
Elsewhere at the Knightsbridge-based luxury store, two protesters climbed onto a £28,000 bed, though they were careful to remove their shoes first.
Elsewhere at the Knightsbridge-based luxury store, two protesters climbed onto a £28,000 bed, though they were careful to remove their shoes first.
They held signs saying ‘end energy poverty now’ and ‘oil equals death’
Just Stop Oil said: ‘At around 1pm, 4 #JustStopOil supporters briefly occupied beds and sofas at @Harrods to demand that the #Government end fuel poverty by isolating homes and ending our reliance on expensive fossil fuels, dangerous and dirty.
“They were quickly escorted out of the store by about 20 security guards.”
The eco-mafia said it had launched the action today in solidarity with Fuel Poverty Action’s Energy For All campaign, as well as the Don’t Pay UK movement, which encourages homeowners not to pay their energy bills. amid rising costs.
It is believed that they chose Harrods to show solidarity with their striking workers who are unable to pay their energy bills.
The store is also owned by the state of Qatar, one of the world’s largest oil producers.
Moment when two Just Stop Oil protesters are escorted from inside Harrods by security guards
A guard (pictured) can be heard yelling ‘get up, get out!’ as he warns protesters that they will trespass if they don’t leave of their own free will
The protester holds a sign telling Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to ‘isolate leaky houses from the British!’
Protesters make themselves comfortable as he reclines on a sofa inside the Harrods store.
It comes after Harrods hired staff from the agency to replace security guards and CCTV operators in a bid to break the pay strike, which it was allowed to do under a new anti-union law passed this summer.
Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham said yesterday: ‘The state of Qatar has rightly been condemned for the way workers have been treated in that country. Now he is involved in a fight for the treatment that is being given to the workers in it.
Harrods believes that using this shameful new law is to its advantage, but it only makes the dispute worse and drags more parties into it.
“Our members are undaunted and have the full support of Unite behind them.”
More than 50 Harrods employees are leaving for what they say is a ‘pay cut disguised as a raise’.
They already carried out strikes on November 25 and are on strike today, tomorrow and on December 11, 17, 18, 23, 24 and 26.
In a press release, Unite Union said: “Harrods made a £51m profit in 2021/22 and doubled the salary of its managing director Michael Ward to £2.3m, despite the fact that the company claimed nearly £6m under the government’s Covid leave scheme.