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🚨Cleaners across rail network to take 48-hour strike action

Contracted out cleaners working on trains across the country will take strike action on 14 and 15 April.

#JusticeForCleaners #FightForFifteen
@RMTunion members working as cleaners for the likes of Atalian Servest, Churchill and Bidvest Noonan are demanding ÂŁ15 an hour, company sick pay, decent holidays and good pensions from contractors who are raking in profits worth millions of pounds.
The train companies that will be affected are Avanti West Coast, GWR, Northern, GTR and South East Trains.
Cleaners working on the Network Rail High Speed contract will also be taking part in the stoppage.
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WOW! This epic l-o-n-g letter from a staff member is REALLY REALLY #DisappointedUAL đź‘Źđź‘Źđź‘Ź - we couldn't have said it better ourselves. Tweeting some excerpts...  As someone committed to anti-racist work, transformative pe
"Since I have worked at and with UAL they have continually expressed a commitment to dignity, diversity and equity of access to education that does not always extend to practice. The decision to continue outsourcing refuses people’s rights to have live-able lives who work ...
to maintain your institutions wealth - this makes all of these statements empty, redundant lip service when you have decided to pass up the opportunity to make fundamental and substantial change to structural issues well within your reach. 🔥🔥🔥
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People in low-paid jobs have been at high risk of contracting #covid19 throughout the pandemic.

On International #JusticeDay for cleaners and security guards, we must heed calls for safer workplaces, fair pay and dignity. Image
Many people in the UK can’t afford to take a sick day.

Emanuel Gomes died from #coronavirus after he continued to work with symptoms, fearing loss of income.

His tragic death is a reminder we need #SickPayForAll #JusticeForCleaners
theguardian.com/world/2020/may…
Figures from @ONS showed security guards have the highest #Covid19 mortality rate of any occupation, almost 4.5 times the average.

It’s clear we need to do more to ensure their safety with access to PPE and workplace risk assessments.
news.sky.com/story/coronavi…
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