Cleaners

Issues for Tube cleaners, and unionisation efforts

Cleaners Win 'London Living Wage'

From 1 July, all London Underground cleaners will be paid the London Living Wage, as ISS finally agreed to pay £7.85 per hour. Cleaning Supervisors will get £9.51 per hour.

This comes nearly two years after RMT-organised cleaners went on strike for a living wage. That strike was settled...

Cleaners Driven Up The Wall!

ISS on TubeLines are trialling a new scheme to save themselves some money and squeeze more work from their employees.

At stations including Euston, deep cleaning that would formerly have been done during engineering hours will be done during traffic hours; no extra staff will be employed. With two...

Where's Our London Living Wage?!

Boris Johnson has announced that the London Living Wage is going up 15p to £7.60. It's hardly a fortune, but many workers - including many of our own Tube cleaners - are not even on the old LLW rate, let alone the new one.

In light of the increase in the LLW, RMT should submit a new claim to the...

Cleaners overlooked - again

As part of the refurb at Tottenham Court Road, London Underground have recently taken over a subway that used to belong to Camden Council. There is no gate to block this subway from the street, so it is open all night long for people to pee in, sleep in and the rest of it. The subway used to be...

Fingerprints Please

Carlisle Cleaning Services plan to make Eurostar cleaners book on duty with finger printing machines - but cleaners plan to strike to stop this humiliation.

Is the company celebrating the 25th anniversary of 1984 by trying to recreate Orwell's surveillance-obsessed society?! How would you like it...

ISS Reneges on Living Wage Promise

ISS have announced that it will not pay the London Living Wage of £7.45 from April after all.

The cleaners' strike last summer was called to a halt when most of the cleaning companies began paying the London Living Wage. ISS, contracted in by TubeLines, said they would phase it in. They paid a...

Another Cleaner Rep Sacked

Fred Dappah, RMT cleaner rep at Hammersmith depot, has been sacked. Despite having permission to work while his status in under consideration, his employer decided to sack him for not having permanent papers! Or perhaps it was for being an assertive and effective union rep?!

Fred is the latest in a...

Next steps in the cleaners' campaign

Cleaning companies continue to target union members over their national insurance numbers. One rep was sacked last week after being employed for seven years. Others are being demanded for proof of their national insurance numbers and stand to lose their jobs. The issue of immigration controls...

Defend RMT reps

RMT reps continue to be sacked in an attempt to pick apart the union.

A ballot will soon start on CBS outdoor to reinstate sacked rep Brendan Judge. He was sacked before Xmas, without evidence, on trumped up charges. Management’s motive is that Brendan played a key role in the successful first...

Cleaners' update

The case against Clara was thrown out.

But Mary's sacking has been upheld on appeal. This mother of one, with no other income, finds herself without a job because she was photographed with her eyes closed on a train - despite the fact that she has an eye injury arising from an accident at work...

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