CLEANERS and caterers on indefinite strike action at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) were joined by outsourced colleagues who launched a two-week walkout yesterday.
Up to 100 outsourced staff at the department, including post room staff, security, porterage and receptionists have joined fellow workers on strike.
The PCS members are demanding a real living wage of £10.55 per hour. They promise further action if Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom can’t negotiate a compromise with the workers.
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
