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September 2016

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LSE Cleaners campaign launch

LSE, London. Thu 29 Sep 2016

  
 
 Alba stands up and shocks the room by telling how she has just been unfairly sacked after working

 for 12 years. She became a supervisor and her hands have suffered from using cleaning chemicals without proper protection

 David Graeber listens

 A cleaner speaks in Spanish

 

 and waits as what she said is translated

 

 Another cleaner spoke in Spanish

 

 

  Others make comments
 
 

UVW General Secretary Petros Elia says the union will ifght to get Alba reinstated  

 

Sandy Nicoll from SOAS Unison tells the meeting about their 10 year fight to bring the cleaners in-house 

and how they acheived the living wage. He says the fight at the LSE may be long too, but it will succeed, and the 

LSE is a much richer organisation and has no need to cut costs at the expense of the workers, and that 

the publicity from the UVW campaign will be very damaging to their international reputation. 

 

 

Sandy was himself suspended last year, but action by the union and students quickly got him reinstated 

next to him was one of the cleaners who had lost his job at SOAS because of his union activites and was now at the LSE 

although the union didn't win every time, it was worth fighting as otherwise the workers would never win 

 
   

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