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OUTSOURCED cleaners on Merseyrail will be protesting tomorrow in their determined battle for the living wage.
Workers employed by the Mitie employment agency will protest outside Merseytravel’s headquarters at Pierhead from 1pm.
The workers, who are members of the RMT union, are demanding the real living wage of £9 an hour.
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
Our members face daily abuse, being spat at, sometimes even deadly assaults, and employers fail to take the issue seriously despite the increasing danger, writes RMT general secretary EDDIE DEMPSEY