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RMT accuses cleaning contractors of super exploitation of cleaners on the railways
RMT Assistant General Secretary Eddie Dempsey, speaking at a protest outside the Transport Department (DfT), London, calling on the Government to end the "scandal" of poverty pay, December 2022
RMT senior assistant general secretary Eddie Dempsey launched a scathing attack on cleaning contractors today at the union’s AGM in Bournemouth.
Speaking in support of an unanimously backed motion calling for all cleaners to be paid at least £15 an hour and for their jobs to be brought back in house by rail companies, Mr Dempsey condemned the “racket” that operates in the industry.
He said: “I’ve seen undocumented workers being paid in little brown envelopes of cash money below the minimum wage.
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