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Millions of workers around the world live in poverty. Many of them are Cleaners and Security Guards. Working on low wages, in more than one job or on 12 hour shifts often 7 days a week, these workers struggle to survive and to feed their families. In Africa they often work for hours on end with no shelter from the sun and walk for 2 hours to work and then back. In India they work without any toilet or rest facilities. In Europe or the US they are often migrant workers, exploited and abused and too frightened to complain. In Latin America they are fired for forming unions or threatened with violence and worse.

Monday June 16th is the day of Solidarity with these workers. They clean and guard the airports, banks, schools, hospitals, shops and trains.

In Africa they use the slogan `Guarding Wealth, Living in Poverty`. Often they guard diamond, uranium, copper and gold mines whilst on these poverty wages. Cleaners too, toil for minimum wages for industries that are earning billions of dollars profits.

The result is poverty, exhaustion, illness, family break up and despair. So June 16th is important to UNI and its affiliated unions. We have a Facebook Page for the campaign and its news. Join it. Like it. Share it. Make June 16th the day we hear the voices of the cleaners and Security Guards

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