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CLEANING and maintenance workers at Scotland’s biggest railway station will strike later this month over “scandalous” working conditions.
Their union RMT said contractor ISS had reneged on promises to improve staff accommodation facilities and instal air conditioning.
Members are instructed not to book on for any shifts on Sunday January 27.
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
