TUBE CLEANERS DENIED RIGHT TO STRIKE

Despite over 98 per cent of RMT ABM tube cleaner members voting for strike action in a ballot they are to be denied the right to fight for basic workplace justice as they failed by just over one per cent to meet the arbitrary thresholds of the Tory anti-union laws. RMT has denounced the toxic combination of the anti-union laws and a hostile and aggressive management as a fundamental attack on basic human rights that has stolen the opportunity for tube cleaners to stand up against a two-tier workforce system that robs them of pensions, sick pay, travel and other benefits. RMT general secretary Mick Cash said that the union would review the situation but no one should be under any illusions. “This fight for workplace justice goes on and we will be stepping up the pressure on the London Mayor to end the scandal of the two-tier workforce on London Underground,” he said. The union has revealed that an Underground cleaner would have to work for nearly 20 years to earn the £374,000 TfL’s highest executive makes in just one year, while it would take them 246 years to earn the £4.5 RMT helpline 0800 376 3706 :: november/december 2019 :: RMTnews 8 TUBE CLEANERS DENIED RIGHT TO STRIKE Tory anti-union laws block strike action over low pay despite overwhelming vote for action ABM CLEANER’S PAY AND CONDITIONS Average salary* £19,029 Free travel on the TfL network? No Final salary pension None. * Calculated from ABM Facility Services Ltd’s company accounts, 2018. TFL AND LONDON UNDERGROUND EXECUTIVE PAY Total remuneration Multiple of average Gets free travel Final salary excluding pension salary of an ABM on TfL network? pension? 2017/18 cleaner (£19,029) Highest paid executive, TfL £374,959 19 Yes Yes Highest paid executive, £294,306 15 Yes Yes London Underground Chief Finance Officer, TFL £262,046 13 Yes Yes Divisional Finance Director, £181,087 9 Yes Yes London Undergrounds Hainault Depot