Minimum wage cleaners at Amazon warehouses in Enfield and Ipswich are set to ballot for strike action over attempts to cut their paid breaks and ba…
Cleaners fight Amazon
Tag: Cleaners
Cleaners force LSE to backdate their stolen pay
LSE has granted two years of backdated holiday pay and a one-off lump sum of £150 per person to their halls of residence cleaners.
Vodafone’s cleaners storm Oxford Street store
Migrant workers who clean Vodafone’s head offices assembled at their flagship Oxford Street store on Saturday for a surprise protest demanding fa…
SOAS management tricked cleaners into exposing themselves to COVID-19
With an already extensive repertoire of exploitation, the cleaners at SOAS have exposed yet another instance of management’s discriminatory and n…
Unions hit targets across London in co-ordinated strikes
Hundreds of mostly migrant workers were involved in the actions, which saw The IWGB and UVW unions lead walkouts and rallies alongside RMT and PCS.
Conferences ditch UoL as lecturers show solidarity with cleaners’ struggle
The University of London (UoL)’s dispute with IWGB members over bringing cleaning contracts back in-house ratcheted up a notch today as a maj…
Rattling cages: rise of the United Voices of the World
In early August 2018 cleaners at the Ministry of Justice and the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea started a coordinated three-day strike.
Cleaners’ Living Wage strike threat takes just 30 hours to beat City bosses
The Bank of New York Mellon have given in to the pay demand from Latin American cleaners after a formal claim declaring potential strike action was…
Striking cleaners picket in Paddington over rail dispute
Outsourced cleaners on First Great Western Railway (GWR) mounted a rowdy picket at 7am this morning to push for the firm to bring them in-house wit…
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