cleaners
Articles about work, policy and workers' struggles in the service sector, as distinct from retail, energy and communications.
Latin american workers in Unite: from heroes to pariahs
In September 2009, Unite evicted the Latin American Workers Association from the office space which they had been providing. LAWAS had not only been backing migrant workers agains the bosses: they had also been backing them against the union.
In September 2009 Unite the union ordered the Latin American Workers Association (LAWAS) without notice to vacate the office which it had provided the Association with in its southeast region HQ in Manor House, thus ending a five year partnership.
Konstantina Kuneva's case buried in political and legal manouvres
The Greek government's effort to hide the closing of Kuneva's case in plain sight.
In the last week Konstantina Kuneva's case made it into the front pages. Kuneva herself spoke to tv channels and newspapers. The ministry of employment offered her an apartment.
Mass class protest march in Salonica, riots in Athens
Thousands march in "independent class" protest march in Salonica, putting party-controlled unions to shame, while anti-police riots break out anew in Athens.
The first weekend of September in Geeece saw the bare teeth of class antagonism in defiance of the ever increasing police brutality and unaccountability.
Cleaners march in Athens demanding Kouneva case to remain open
Cleaners of the autonomous PEKOP union march in Athens demanding that the case on the assassination attempt against their secretary, K. Kouneva, with sulfuric acid remains open.
Cleaners of the PEKOP union alongside more than 1500 solidarity protesters took to the sizzling streets of Athens on Thursday 2/7 to protest against the decision of the district attorney to close the case of the assassination attempt against Konstantina Kouneva, the cleaner union's secretary last December by corporate thugs.
Cleaners, laywers and doctors on the march in Greece
Cleaners march in Athens, lawyers stage demonstration against anti-anarchist legislation in Salonica, and doctors go on new round of stoppages and demos across Greece.
On Tuesday 20/5/2008 the independent union of cleaners of Attica (PEKOP), whose general secretary, K.
Athens Airport: death, redundacies, corruption and the pretext of economic crisis
This is an Athens Indymedia article translated roughly by http://clandestinenglish.wordpress.com/
J&P-ΑΒΑΞ Α.Ε. business group operating at the Eleftherios Venizelos Airport has sacked 42 people[b], both Greek and immigrants, who had been employed by the company in cleaning services. They were dismissed with summary procedures on the pretext of the economic crisis, of course. They all had completed three years at the job and were all anticipating the increase of wages that the law foresees.
Cleaners' subhiring company smashed in Thessaloniki
Protesters attack and smash slavedriver's offices in Salonica in solidarity to the cleaners' struggle and the plight of K. Kouneva.
On Saturday 4/4 protestors attacked the offices of Ecological Ltd., a partner of the OIKOMET directed subhiring trust that has been letting cleaners to hospitals, universities and civil services in Thessaloniki. OIKOMET has been denounced as responsible for the December attack with sulphuric acid against the gen. secretary of the autonomous union of Athens cleaners (PEKOP), K.
Occupation of the Aristotle University Thessaloniki Rector’s Office - against subletting slave-traders
Below is the first announcement of the ongoing (since the 16th of March) Occupation at the Rector’s Office of AUTh, against the subletting working condition in Universities and anywhere the most severe exploitation of immigrants and Greeks is hidden behind contracts on sub-contracts on sub-sub-contracts and so on….At http://www.ergolabies.blogspot.com/ is the occupation’s blog….
BY THE OPEN ASSEMBLY OF THE OCCUPATION OF THE RECTOR’S AT THE ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI
AGAINST WORKER-SUBLETTING COMPANIES, SUBLETTING AGENCIES AND SLAVE-LABOUR CONTRACTS:
NOT HERE, NOT ANYWHERE!
-Out with the rent companies
-Down with the subletting slavery at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Learning from experience: To win is to fight to the end
This is a short interview looking at the experience of a migrant worker who has become a labour activist, and was involved in the successful self-organised strike by the Schroders cleaners in October 2008.
Alberto has been working as a cleaner in London and fighting for better wages and conditions for over 10 years.
Like many from the immigrant community, he came to the UK to study and to look for a better life. Soon after his studies, he fell into the ranks of many immigrants doing low paid work.
Cleaners at Schiphol airport hold sit-down strike
Over a hundred cleaners at Schiphol Airport have held a sit-down strike to demand regular jobs, travel expenses and respect.
Prior to the action, they observed a minute’s silence to commemorate the victims of yesterday’s Turkish Airlines crash.
