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.
Cleaners force LSE to backdate their stolen pay
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Victory for LSE Cleaners
The London School of Economics cleaners will now officially be employees of the LSE from 5th March 2018. The move follows a series of strikes organised by United Voices of the World Union: a members- led trade union of mainly migrant and precarious workers, since late 2016. The strikes highlighed the disparities in sick pay, paid
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