CLEANERS WIN LOROL BATTLE

RMT helpline 0800 376 3706 :: january 2016 :: RMTnews 12 Cleaners employed by Carillion on the London Overground (LOROL) contract have fought off the threat of redundancy and won improved conditions at work. The battle began after cleaners working in two groups of ‘mobile heavy cleaning gangs’ on night shifts requested basic welfare facilities such as toilets, changing facilities and somewhere to get a hot drink. The company responded by attempting to make workers redundant and move the work to days. RMT reps and regional organiser John Leach organised workplace meetings before the start of the shifts and discussed the grievances and a decision was made to organise a strike ballot across the Carillion LOROL contract. As a result the proposal to shit the work to days and to make redundancies was abandoned and two welfare vans were purchased to provide decent welfare facilities to the workforce. John Leach said that the workforce should be congratulated for the stand they took. “It was only because these workers stood up for themselves against a big company like Carillion, which is by no means easy, that they won these improvements and fought off job cuts. “By showing that they were not prepared to be pushed around they have won the decent facilities that these workers fully deserve,” he said. CLEANERS WIN LOROL BATTLE Cleaners working for Carillion on the London Overground contract defeat redundancy threat after strike ballot called VICTORY: Carillion RMT reps from left to right Francis Ewke, Josephine Eksoh, Kyle St Albyn. Not pictured are Mohammed Orisakeye and Jude Achebe