RATES OF PAY & CONDITIONS OF SERVICE 2016 – INTERSERVE (LUL CONTRACT) (LUL/0001/I(LUL))
I am in receipt of correspondence from the Company, in which it confirms the Supervisor pay uplift from 1st April 2016 as follows:-
We note the report from our Regional Organise. We note that the employer has confirmed a backdated pay increase of 3% for security staff and 5% for cleaners. We congratulate our members on winning this pay rise through our campaign of industrial action and persistent negotiation.
However, this increase still does not bring pay rates up to the London Living Wage. We instruct the Regional Organiser to continue to press for improvements in these members' pay and conditions.
We note the correspondence on file from Transport for London. We do not accept its abrogation of responsibility for Carlisle’s disgraceful refusal to pay the London Living Wage.
Transport for London (and other public bodies) must take responsibility for bodies in its chain of contracting. We further note the lack of response from Boris Johnson, and instruct the General Secretary to step up our public and political campaigning on this matter.
We note that a meeting is to take place with ISS on 18 April and instruct the General Secretary to place a report of this meeting in front of us.
We further note that ISS intends to only pay the uprated level of the London Living Wage six months after the uprating is announced, and claims that this is allowed for in its contract. We are appalled by this, which means in practice that our members are expected to live on less than a living wage for 50% of their lives.
We note the report from our Regional Organiser, and accordingly declare this union in dispute with ISS on these matters, including:
We note the report of the meeting of our ISS representatives and members which took place on 20 February 2013.
We are appalled that ISS is reportedly not paying the London Living Wage (LLW), having not increased it when the rate was increased. We insist that ISS increase its employees’ wages in line with the LLW uprate at the time that it is uprated, not six months later. We instruct the General Secretary to make urgent representations to ISS, its contracting company Tube Lines, that company’s owners Transport For London, and to the TfL Board, GLA and Mayor, and to seek press coverage on this matter.
"We welcome the positive response so far to our call for nationally-coordinated industrial action of our current disputes with cleaning companies"
We welcome the positive response so far to our call for nationally-coordinated industrial action of our current disputes with cleaning companies.We instruct the General Secretary to convene a meeting of GGC members with lead officers and representatives of the current disputes involving cleaners as soon as is practical, to discuss plans for co-ordinated industrial action in line with our previous decisions. A report of this meeting to be placed in front of the GGC promptly after the meeting.
IMPROVING PAY & CONDITIONS – CARLISLE CLEANING & SECURITY (DOCKLANDS LIGHT RAILWAY)
That we note the ballot result for both strikes and action short of strikes is as follows:-
Total votes cast: 10
Number voting “Yes” : 10
Number voting “No” : 0
Spoilt Papers: 0
We congratulate our members on their 100% vote for action. We note that our Docklands Light Railway branch is to meet tomorrow, and that our lead officer is to meet with the employer. Reports of these two meetings are to be placed in front of us within seven days.