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Cleaners at £24,000-a-year private school have pay cut by 12% after strike vote
General view of James Allen's Girls' School, in south east London

OUTSOURCED migrant cleaners at a prestigious £24,000-a-year private school have had their pay unlawfully slashed after holding their first-ever strike ballot.

Cleaners at James Allen’s Girls’ School (JAGS) in London had their pay cut by 12 per cent from £13.15 to £11.55 an hour, just days after conducting a strike ballot on July 5. 

The cleaners were voting for a pay rise next year in line with the London Living Wage, the same sick pay as teachers, and a halt to attempts to reduce the weeks they work.

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