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Legal bid to prevent strike solidarity
Underpaid cleaners refuse to stymie action in face of employer’s intimidation
CLEANERS for transnational banking juggernaut JP Morgan Chase were threatened with a legal injunction yesterday unless they promised to ignore all acts of solidarity at an upcoming all-out strike.
Staff at London’s 100 Wood Street — offices for JP Morgan, Schroder and Law Debenture investment banks — are currently balloting for strikes over job losses and living wage demands.
Two cleaners have already been dismissed by subcontractor Thames Cleaning and Support Services Ltd, a grievance their non-TUC affiliated union United Voices of the World (UVW) is hoping to take to a tribunal.
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