News, reports and information for London Transport cleaners
This is the council of executive report from our London Transport C of E member John Reid. For full details please try and attend regional council, your branch or speak to your rep.
DISGUISED EMPLOYEES
Bakerloo News is the regular Newsletter for RMT members in the Bakerloo Branch.
In this edition:
LONDON UNDERGROUND FINGERED IN TAX EVASION SCAM
AGS people and LUL are complicit in a tax evasion scam whereby they use the self-employed status of workers to avoid paying employers National Insurance liabilities to HMRC, SSP and holiday pay to the workers and destroy pretty much every right a worker in the UK enjoys.
Workers, even agency workers, have certain rights and protections. A self-employed cleaner has none. I would be interested to see the actual contract between the self-employed and LUL or its sub-contractor, if one even exists.
To all LT Branches & Activists
A message from John Leach Regional Organiser follows:-
Dear Colleagues
The Cleaning Grades Committee along with myself has agreed to have an emergency meeting on 14th January 2015 at 5pm in Unity House to plan for the Interserve cleaners Dispute. I have therefore been asked by the Cleaning Grades Secretary to circulate this to all branches to ensure full participation of all grades at this meeting.
With best wishes.
John Leach
To all LT Branches & Activists
A message from John Leach Regional Organiser follows:-
Dear Colleagues
The Cleaning Grades Committee along with myself has agreed to have an emergency meeting on 14th January 2015 at 5pm in Unity House to plan for the Interserve cleaners Dispute. I have therefore been asked by the Cleaning Grades Secretary to circulate this to all branches to ensure full participation of all grades at this meeting.
With best wishes.
John Leach
Interserve, the latest outsourced contract cleaning company LUL have tasked with humiliating and treating our cleaners as an underclass of London’s workers.
Previous incumbents of the multi million pound contracts on offer from TfL/LUL/Mayor’s office have failed to pay minimum wage, London Living wage, sick pay, travel allowance to our cleaners.
Interserve are perhaps the worst of the worst.
Non-payment of wages, late payment of wages, no pay slips, statutory sick pay withheld are the headlines in this appalling companies treatment of our comrades and colleagues.
Following three earlier phases of rock solid action over the past two months, cleaners employed by Interserve, looking after the busy and internationally famous Waterloo Station in London, are to strike again in the New Year over a comprehensive breakdown in industrial relations relating to a whole range of fundamental issues including;
The disgraceful treatment of employees continues unabated.
Our cleaners all over the combine are having to contend with bullying and intimidating managers who routinely abuse agreed policies and procedures including;
• Grievances unheard
• pay illegally deducted
• pay slips not provided
• victimisation
• race discrimination
• targeting of RMT trade union reps for their trade union activities.
To all London Transport Regional Activists
5th December 2014
Dear Colleagues
Message from John Leach, Regional Organiser
Interserve Dispute – RMT Reps Under Attack
Dear Colleagues
Members will be aware that on 12th November, RMT announced its fight back against injustices on Interserve. Please see the attached press release we put out last month.
Whatever your grade or work location, there is a very good reason for you to come to your RMT branch's AGM next Thursday (11 December, 17:00-19:15, ex Services club, Harvey Road, Leytonstone)