News, reports and information for London Transport cleaners
CHANGES TO WORK LOCATIONS AND ADDITIONAL WORKLOADS (PROJECT LEAN) - ABM (LUL) (LUL/15/4)
MASS MEETING WEDNESDAY 2ND AUGUST from 4-5PM
INDIAN YMCA (K T Paul Hall), 41 FITZROY SQUARE, W1T 6AQ
Dear colleague,
Show your solidarity with our cleaning grades
RMT has two petitions in circulation currently relating to campaigns being run to support our cleaning grades members. I'm asking all members to make sure they have signed - and shared - these petitions. We're an all-grades union and we look after each other. Getting involved in the campaign to win insourcing and improvements to the pay and conditions of our cleaning grades members is part of what it means to be an industrial union.
21st June 2023
Dear RMT Member,
CHANGES TO WORK LOCATIONS AND ADDITIONAL WORKLOADS (PROJECT LEAN) – ABM (LUL)
I have received reports from your RMT Reps that ABM are calling you into meetings where members feel pressurized into accepting more work at more locations. This is taking place as part of a review of responsibilities and work locations which the Company is calling ‘Project Lean’.
Dear colleague,
Sign new petition to win travel facilities for rail cleaners, security guards and other outsourced workers
15th June is International Justice Day for Cleaners and Security Guards, which is held each year in memory of a group of Los Angeles janitors who were beaten up by the police during a peaceful demonstration against their contractor.
Dear colleagues
FAO all outsourced cleaning, security, catering and stations grades
'Our Work Matters' - Opportunity to get trained and lobby politicians directly, London, June 15th, 9.30am-3.30pm
RMT has been working with the TUC in developing a new campaign - 'Our Work Matters - Justice for outsourced facilities workers'.
Dear colleague
RMT's victory on TfL travel passes for sub-contracted cleaners - passes issued from now
As I have reported before, RMT's campaigning has won a major concession for sub-contracted cleaners working at Transport for London. Cleaners who work at TfL will now receive an Oystercard for travel on TfL's network. I'm writing now with more details about the eligibility and process for getting this travel pass.
Dear colleague,
RMT wins free travel for 5,800 TfL cleaners
After years of campaigning, RMT has won free travel facilities for 5,800 cleaners sub-contracted by Transport for London.
Last weekend, at an RMT fringe during London Labour conference, I reiterated our union's case for the Mayor to do more for TfL's outsourced cleaners, including extending the free travel benefit, improving other employment conditions and ending the scourge of outsourcing by bringing them into direct employment.
Dear colleague,
RMT campaign wins cleaners free travel
On Sunday the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan announced that from April next year ABM cleaners will be given the same free travel as other directly employed TfL staff. The Mayor also announced that he will instruct TfL to look at ensuring cleaners get sick pay and will review again the outsourcing contract with ABM in April 2023.
RMT today welcomed the news that heroic cleaners on London’s Underground network will receive free travel on Transport for London services as of the new financial year.
Following a long campaign fought by the union, the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has today announced that the cleaners, who are outsourced to US company ABM, will finally get the free travel given to directly employed TfL staff. The Mayor has also asked TfL to look into making sure the cleaners get sick pay and to assess whether they can finally be brought in-house in April 2023.
The RMT London Transport Region is organising a campaign launch event as London Transport cleaners working for ABM on the Tube and ISS on the Docklands Light Railway ramp up their right for a fair deal.
To attend the event, which will take place on 25th of August, and to confirms times, please speak to a local rep or branch official.
The event will take place all day at the Indian YMCA, 42 Fitzroy Square, W1T 6AQ.