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RMT protest London City Hall over outsourced cleaning contract tender
More than 2,000 cleaners working across London Underground and the wider TfL estate are outsourced and denied the basic standards that directly employed staff receive.
Cleaners working for private contractors receive no company sick pay and only the statutory minimum pension,...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: RMT, Eddie Dempsey, Tube, London Underground, Cleaners, ABM
Halt Tube cleaning contract tender and bring cleaners in-house
Hundreds of cleaners working across London Underground and the wider TfL estate are outsourced and denied the basic standards that other TfL staff receive.
Contracted out cleaners do not get company sick pay and only receive the legal minimum...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: RMT, Eddie Dempsey, Tube, Cleaning, ABM, TfL
RMT calls for halt on £700m Tube cleaning contract tender
Tube union, RMT has written to the Mayor of London and members of the TfL Board demanding the immediate suspension of the procurement process for the pan-TfL cleaning contract.
The call comes after the union obtained legal advice from...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: RMT, Eddie Dempsey, ABM, London Underground, Cleaners, Mayor of London, TfL
Tube cleaners threaten strike action over wages and sick pay
Despite repeated calls for a fair pay settlement, ABM management have refused to go beyond the statutory London Living Wage uplift and have made no offer whatsoever on sick pay, leaving cleaners with no protection when they fall ill.
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Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: RMT, Eddie Dempsey, ABM, Cleaners, London Underground, Justice For Cleaners
RMT Victory in campaign for free travel for Tube cleaners
Following a long campaign fought by the union, the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has today announced that the cleaners, who are outsourced to US company ABM, will finally get the free travel given to directly employed TfL staff. The...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: RMT, Mick Lynch, Tube, Cleaners, ABM, Sadiq Khan, TfL, London Underground,
RMT declares dispute over outsourced Underground cleaners
RMT has warned London mayor Sadiq Khan that it would be declaring another dispute on the Underground and balloting for strike action after it emerged that heroic Tube cleaners have been condemned to three more years of outsourcing following what...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: London Underground, LUL, Cleaners, ABM, Outsourcing, Justice For Tube Cleaners
RMT calls on Sadiq Khan to end Tube outsourcing
Tube union RMT reacted with fury to the announcement this week, by TfL Commissioner Andy Byford that outsourcing contractor ABM will continue to employ tube cleaners, leaving hundreds of RMT members in the hands of a private company. RMT called...
Region: South East and Anglia
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