Cleaners

Issues for Tube cleaners, and unionisation efforts

Cleaners Cut Too?

Cleaners have heard that if ticket office cuts go ahead, many might lose their jobs.

A big part of station accommodation cleaners' work is cleaning ticket offices, so it makes sense that cleaning companies and London Underground have spied this opportunity for cuts.

Yet another reason for fighting...

No to biometric booking on. Keep Supervisors on stations

It is fantastic that ISS cleaners have voted overwhelmingly to take action over biometric booking on.

This can give us confidence to refuse to touch the machines that will clock our fingerprints as we sign in and out, handing our personal data to our bosses who have openly said they will share it...

Cleaners' Jobs Cut, the Work Piles Up and LU's Cash Flows In

London Underground recently sent round a bulletin reminding us that only Metro newspapers have the contract to distribute on LU property.

This got Tubeworker wondering how much revenue TfL makes from its contract with Metro, which runs up to 2017.

A bit of digging revealed that in the year up to...

ISS Cleaners: Vote Yes to Stop Fingerprinting

As ISS moves towards imposing biometric booking on machines for cleaners, voting Yes in RMT's ballot for 'action short of strikes' will enable cleaners to refuse to use them.

It is in LU staff's interests to support our cleaners over this issue, as the biometric machines pose a threat to the jobs...

ISS Cleaners Come Fighting Back

As we reporting in the last edition of Tubeworker, ISS has culled cleaners through immigration raids, causing others to leave in fear. Coinciding with RMT’s industrial action ballot over biomentric fingerprinting and sickness discipline amongst other issues, ISS used immigration law to crush a...

'3 Cosas': Summer of Action

RMT cleaners can take inspiration from cleaners at the University of London who are pursuing their campaign for ‘3 Cosas’ (‘three things’) throughout the summer. Their demands are: sick pay, holiday pay and a pension. Supported by students and workers at the university, they have staged regular...

ISS Cleaners Bounce Back

As we reported in the last edition of Tubeworker, ISS has culled some cleaners through immigration raids, causing others to leave in fear. This intimidation coincided precisely with RMT’s industrial action ballot over biomentric fingerprinting, punishment for sickness amongst other issues: ISS used...

ISS Lures Cleaners to Immigration Ambush

ISS - already one of the most repulsively exploitative employers on the job - has hit a new low.

A couple of days ago, it told some of its cleaners to report to Stratford to get an award. But when they got there, they were pounced on by the Police and the Border Agency, and 19 of them were...

Daylight Robbery

Cleaning contractor, ISS, has been wanting to bring in a pension for its staff.
But the pension that they want to bring in is an off-shore pension called NOW PENSIONS, which is only a front for a company called ATP, based in Denmark. The phone number to contact NOW PENSIONS is a Danish number.

At...

Cleaning Employers Scrape the Barrel

Amazingly, cleaning employers seem to suddenly be able to pay £12.45 per hour. Problem is, it's only to strike-breakers.

Yes, while cleaners usually on £8.30 or £8.45 are striking for better pay and conditions, the going rate for working is £12.45. Then it'll be back to poverty pay tomorrow.

They...

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