Labor & Economic News Blog

Friday, July 15, 2005

British Parliament's cleaners to strike
Cleaners who service the Houses of Parliament will hold their first ever strike next Wednesday (20th July) after voting today to take industrial action in a dispute over low pay. The cleaners, many of whom are migrant workers, are paid just £5 per hour with no company sick pay or pension, and have been balloted for action by their union, the Transport and General Workers' Union, after the parliamentary authorities failed to act.

 



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