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Foreign Office urged to insource cleaners after 100% vote to strike
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Whitehall, London, June 2020

THE FOREIGN Office has been urged to consider insourcing its cleaners and caterers after they unanimously rejected a pay offer from private contractor OCS and voted to strike.

Members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union refused a deal that would have given most of them no more than the Living Wage Foundation’s UK living wage of £12 per hour.

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