Cleaners

Issues for Tube cleaners, and unionisation efforts

Protest to defend two ISS cleaner reps from sacking

Clara and Mary, both tube cleaner union reps, are both fighting to defend their jobs on Thursday. Clara is the Cleaners' Grade Secretary and was key in making last summer's cleaners' strike happen. The company have come up with trumped up charges to get her out of her job, and she faces a...

Keeping up the pressure over Tube cleaners’ pay

Cleaners are still not all receiving the London Living Wage they struck for in the summer. At Mayor’s questions in July, Boris publicly promised it to cleaners on Metronet contracts, but not all Metronet companies are paying. Cleaners on Tubelines contracts have a 60p increase but no guarantee of...

Cleaners' Victory Stalled

Cleaners employed by ICS and Initial are not receiving the London Living Wage, even though they are contrated by Metronet, who have promised it.

In negotiations, the full London Living Wage to be paid on TubeLines does not look secure. It looks like that the money is not forthcoming, so RMT will...

Cleaners' Victory: A 'Tubeworker' Assessment

RMT cleaners have achieved an important success - the 'London living wage' for all Tube cleaners. It was won by brave and determined efforts by a vulnerable section of workers and their supporters, and should inspire and provide an example for others.

This has been a campaign of perhaps historic...

ISS confronts the consequences of its immigration crackdown

Yesterday, on a day when ISS had summoned around 100 cleaners to present their immigration papers at their offices in Greenwich, activists from the Campaign Against Immigration Controls organised to hit back at ISS’s ongoing use of immigration legislation to crush the cleaners’ dispute.
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"Direct Action" Works! The Storming of Stonebridge

Brent Trades Council held a meeting of around 50 people to defend a cleaner rep at Stonebridge park depot sacked during the strike - then put its commitment to solidarity into practice immediately by marching down the road to Stonebridge depot when the meeting finished, where another cleaner rep was...

Tube Cleaners To Strike Again

The cleaners grade meeting on Friday 25th July agreed that we will need more strikes to win the strike demands for all cleaners. The dates have now been set: from 05:30 on Thursday 21 until 05:29 on Saturday 23 August. Concrete proposals for the next strikes include targeted mass picketing on lines...

Keep Up The Cleaners' Fight

Encouraged by the huge public support for the cleaners, we need to step up our activity for the next strike at the beginning of August.

Money from branches in our own and other unions is already swelling the cleaners' strike fund. RMT and activists from the Feminist Fightback campaign filled the...

Don't Let The Companies Crush The Cleaners

After three impressive days of strike action by cleaners on the Underground, cleaning companies have responded with their full might to crush the spirit of the cleaners. Some cleaners who took part in the strike have been suspended without pay, either because their right to work has suddenly been...

Feminists Protest in Support of Cleaners

On the morning of the first cleaners' strike, members of the socialist feminist activist network Feminist Fightback turned up at 55 Broadway, armed with feather dusters, brooms and mops. They whipped past the security guard before he realised what was happening and caused much disruption for about...

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