UNI Solidarity with GMB strikers

Publié: 5 Octobre 2013
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UNI Property Services and UNI Europa have written to OCS Management asking them `to work with our affiliate GMB in a spirit of positive co-operation to settle this dispute in favour of the cleaners and supervisors concerned.`

The dispute concerns the lack of sick pay and the low wage levels of the Cleaners and Supervisors on this contract in the wealthy area of Kensington and Knightsbridge. The Cleaners are only on £7.18 an hour minimum wage and are claiming the modest but widely recognised `living Wage` level of 8.55 an hour.

OCS declares itself as an `employer of choice` but this dispute reveals a company taking part in the `race to the bottom` in wages and conditions - where workers suffer and services become cheap and nasty.

Workers have taken 3 days action already and more is expected.