Barclays to pay cleaners £7.50p/h
June 28th 2007 After campaigning by The East London Communities Organisation (TELCO) and the T&G section of Unite, Barclays will pay all its cleaners in the City of London and Canary Wharf £7.50 per hour. The deal goes beyond the unions’ demands for financial and legal institutions in the City and the Wharf to pay cleaners the London living wage, currently set at £7.20.
“All the banks, financial and legal organisations in the City of London and Canary Wharf can easily afford to treat the cleaners with the respect they deserve, and should follow the example now set by Barclays,” says Paul Davies, lead organiser for the T&G section of Unite.
“It is good to see a company accepting responsibility for cleaners’ conditions, and hasn’t hidden behind a contractor.”
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