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Two days — “a slap on the face” — is all the notice Jay Gannon got that he is losing his Freedom Mobile job of more than five years.

Gannon is one of 130 full-time employees who will be laid off beginning Wednesday by Shaw Communications which owns Freedom Mobile. Workers learned Monday the company is closing the downtown Windsor call centre March 28.

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“They have nothing. There’s nothing there,” Gannon said of savings the mostly minimum wage earners would have to survive on while they search for another job. “You can’t save anything when you’re making $11.65, $12.15, $13 (an hour). They’ve only been making $14 (an hour) for what, two weeks?”

The starting wage was $11.65 an hour and the average wage was $13.68 an hour before the province upped minimum wage to $14 an hour at the beginning of 2018, said Gannon, Unit 505 president with the merged Telecommunications Workers Union, United Steelworkers Local 1944.