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“TO BE paid 8.91 an hour for doing a job like ours and to still struggle to pay your bills is very depressing.”
This quote from one of our RMT reps Bella Fashola encapsulates the reality facing Churchill cleaners on a day-to-day basis.
After doing one of the hardest and most important jobs on the railways, she along with her colleagues are faced with grinding poverty after finishing her shift.
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