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Reports round-up: Porters, cleaners and domestics protest at north London hospital
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Reports round-up: Porters, cleaners and domestics protest at north London hospital

Also: Mears workers prepare for more action | Grantham NHS protest | Bristol Deliveroo strike | Gatwick baggage handlers to strike | Bloomberg security guards protest | Bield care homes collapse | Filia feminism conference | Sellafield firefighters strike
17 October 2017
Tube cleaners protest for decent pay
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Tube cleaners protest for decent pay

Outsourced tube cleaners demonstrated outside City Hall on Thursday to demand better working conditions.
12 October 2017
Reports round-up: Cleaners protest at Ferrari showroom
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Reports round-up: Cleaners protest at Ferrari showroom

Also: Thomas Cook pilots’ strike grounded—for now | Gatwick baggage handlers ballot | Manchester Airport cleaners vote for action
03 October 2017
Low paid university workers provide a lesson for the whole labour movement
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Low paid university workers provide a lesson for the whole labour movement

If anyone is unsure what low paid, largely migrant workers can achieve when their union supports them, look no further than our inspirational fight at Soas—the School of Oriental and African Studies.
09 August 2017
Serco strikers go from strength to strength - join their protest
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Serco strikers go from strength to strength – join their protest

Solidarity from trade unionists and campaigners throughout this week has spurred outsourced health workers in east London to take on multinational Serco.
29 July 2017
Striking Barts hospital workers say Serco’s latest offer is an insult to low-paid workers
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Striking Barts hospital workers say Serco’s latest offer is an insult to low-paid workers

Hundreds of domestics, cleaners, porters and security workers began a two-week strike at four east London hospitals on Tuesday.
25 July 2017
Buoyant mood on the Barts health picket lines as strikers win support
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Buoyant mood on the Barts health picket lines as strikers win support

Striking east London health workers have spoken about the big support they’ve received in their fight against low pay.
13 July 2017
Industrial round-up: Post workers hold large rallies over Royal Mail pension attack
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Industrial round-up: Post workers hold large rallies over Royal Mail pension attack

Also: Four-week strike starts at Mears | Tube bosses ban water | Woolwich ferry dispute settled | LSE cleaners defend Alba | Dpac protest against Atos | Birmingham bins | Sellafield firefighters | dirty protest | Unnecessary defeat at BMW
11 July 2017
East London hospital workers begin a week-long walkout against Serco bosses
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East London hospital workers begin a week-long walkout against Serco bosses

Support is growing for east London hospital workers taking on multinational outsourcing giant Serco as they launched a week-long walkout today, Tuesday.
11 July 2017
Fed up and fighting back - the health workers defying multinational Serco
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Fed up and fighting back – the health workers defying multinational Serco

Low-paid and migrant workers are at the sharp end of cuts and privatisation in the NHS. They face rocketing workloads and bullying bosses. But across north east London 1,000 porters, domestics and cleaners are taking on a multinational to demand higher pay—and showing how to fight, reports Tomáš Tengely-Evans
10 July 2017
St Barts hospital cleaners launch bold programme of strikes for more pay
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St Barts hospital cleaners launch bold programme of strikes for more pay

Around 1,000 outsourced hospital cleaners in east London are planning a programme of hard-hitting action against multinational Serco.
27 June 2017
LSE strike wins demands for equal pay and conditions
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LSE strike wins demands for equal pay and conditions

Cleaners at the London School of Economics (LSE) university have won an impressive victory. The outsourced workers had been striking to demand equal pay and conditions to workers employed directly by the university.
13 June 2017