*- Support the cleaners on Friday 27th June -*
(* There will be some direct action in central London from 9am to 10am. Meet at Westminster tube station, Bridge Street exit at 8.30am.*)
Around 700 RMT Tube cleaners working for four private contractors are to
stage a series of strikes after voting by a landslide 125-to-one margin for
action to win the London living wage and decent working conditions.
Starting at 18.00pm on Thursday 26th June RMT Underground cleaners will be
striking for 24 hours.
A second, 48-hour, strike is also scheduled for all shifts commencing
between 18:50 on Tuesday July 1 and Thursday July 3.
They are demanding:
- Wage of £7.20 per hour, the minimum London living wage as determined by
the
GLA last year
- Full sick pay
- Final Salary Pensions
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays (some cleaners only get 2 weeks at
the moment)
- Free travel
- An end to third party sackings - this practice means that cleaners can be
dismissed with no disciplinary hearing or right of appeal at the order of
parties other than the employer
Around 700 cleaners will be on strike after there was a 99% yes vote on a
40%
turn out. These workers are hugely exploited, mainly migrant, largely
illegal,
organising alongside their relatively better off colleagues to fight against
the bosses.
Contractors may bring in agency workers to undermine the strike. To support
the
strike pickets will be organised across the city.
There will be some direct action in central London from 9am to 10am. Meet at
Westminster tube station, Bridge Street exit at 8.30am.
See :
http://www.rmt.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=107663
http://www.feministfightback.org.uk/
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