Cleaners

Issues for Tube cleaners, and unionisation efforts

Outsourced workers on the DLR to strike

Outsourced cleaning and security staff employed by ISS on the Docklands Light Railway will strike on 30 and 31 December, demanding improved pay and conditions.

The second day of the strike sees them strike alongside over 1,000 other outsourced cleaning workers on mainline train operating companies...

On the offensive against outsourcing in 2023

2023 will be a major year for cleaners and other outsourced workers across LUL/TfL.

We need to keep the pressure on Mayor Khan to ensure he comes good on his commitment to provide travel passes from April, and to ensure the passes are exactly the same pass that directly-employed staff get, rather...

Cleaners: use new agreement to demand more

After literally years of negotiation, ABM has finally signed off on a collective bargaining agreement with RMT.
That means there will now be a formal structure for cleaners’ representation, with formally recognised reps’ positions, and an opportunity for RMT to submit claims for changes to pay...

Wot, no running water?!

The cleaners' mess room at Elephant and Castle is currently without running water, meaning cleaners are having to fill buckets from elsewhere to clean dishes and crockery.

The local RMT safety rep is quite rightly pursuing the issue, ignoring the logic of outsourcing which claims that, as the...

ABM and the agency

AGS, the agency that cleaning contractor ABM occasionally uses to plug gaps in its staffing level, is advertising shifts at numerous stations in the days leading up to the Queen’s funeral.

In response to RMT pressure, ABM was quick to insist the overtime shifts had been offered to its own staff...

Carnival of understaffing...

At Oxford Circus during Notting Hill Carnival, there were just two cleaners on shift for a lot of the day. Unsurprisingly, they were completely run ragged.

Cleaners meet to plan ballot

RMT London Transport Region has called a cleaners' campaign meeting for 25 August, from 11:00 at the Indian YMCA (W1T 6AQ).

Cleaners need minimum numbers

A correspondent from a busy Zone 1 station tells us the 15:00-23:00 cleaning shift on Friday was covered by just one cleaner. Sometimes there are as many as three, but usually at least two. Having just one cleaner working perhaps the busiest shift of the day, on a busy weekend, is indefensible.

The...

RMT re-launches cleaners' dispute

RMT has launched a new dispute over Tube cleaners' conditions.

The announcement of the dispute was made in a letter to Sadiq Khan, rightly attacking him for renewing ABM's cleaning contract despite mealy-mouthed comments during his election that he would "consider an in-house option".

It's not...

Revive the fight for cleaners' conditions

RMT must urgently dedicate more resources to empowering ABM cleaner reps and activists to step up their fight for improved conditions.

Disgracefully, Sadiq Khan looks set to stonewall union demands to in-house the cleaning contract, and will re-tender the contract to ABM without even stipulating...

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