City cleaners win!

Submitted by cathy n on 12 January, 2007 - 1:55

As we reported on the front page of the last Solidarity, the T&G’s Justice for Cleaners campaign, seeking to organise and mobilise cleaners working in the City of London, has won substantial gains. After several weeks of demonstrations and direct action, including a sit in at the offices of Goldman Sachs and the threat of a hunger strike by five workers to put pressure on the Royal Bank of Scotland, three major companies — ISS, Lancaster and Mite — have conceded the union's main demands. These include collective bargaining to determine a uniform system for the whole of the City of London and the “fare share” system by which non-members pay a contribution to union negotiating costs. The latter will help obviously extend and maintain union membership massively.

A number of smaller, but still important cleaning companies in the City have yet to sign, and the campaign of actions will be restarting towards the end of January. Initiatives like this are crucial to the rebuilding of a class struggle labour movement; this is a campaign every socialist should support and get involved in if they can. For more information see the TGWU website — www.tgwu.org.uk

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