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    Cleaners at prestigious UK girls’ school vote to strike over cut in hours
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    Cleaners at prestigious UK girls’ school vote to strike over cut in hours

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    2. Fantastic-Device8916 on

      And some will unironically say this is why we need immigration – to fill these exploitative jobs. £11.55 per hour in London is atrocious.

    3. Nulibru on

      Get the kids to do it like they do in Japan.

      Might make them grow up a bit less arrogant.

    4. Witty-Bus07 on

      There’s a reason why migrants only take such jobs and once they find their footing realise how ridiculous low and to survive on such pay is and likely can’t change jobs.

    5. bibby_siggy_doo on

      Labour did say private schools need to cut costs so parents don’t get affected by the VAT on school fees. Anybody protesting the school’s move that supports Labour’s policy is being very disingenuous.

    6. cloche_du_fromage on

      So someone not happy with the idea of a 4 day week.

      Which is much less appealing if you are paid hourly.

    7. Puzzleheaded-Tie-740 on

      > Correspondence from DB Services showed the company promised an uplift in pay to £13.15 an hour, the London living wage, if staff agreed to the cut in weeks. If they failed to sign the contract, their pay would be pegged at £11.55.

      Scumbags.

      > UVW said the savings made by the proposed cleaning cuts would amount to about £20,000 – less than the annual fees for a single student at the school.

      Mega-scumbags.

      From my own experience of using the girls toilets at secondary school, a cleaners strike is no small threat. Think used sanitary napkins stuck to the walls of cubicles, bloody side out. Teenage girls are animals.

    9. Cold_Dawn95 on

      Does the school need cleaning during holidays, maybe 1 week for a deep clean before/after each term but if they are already cleaning everyday after school it doesn’t seem unreasonable that would be sufficient.

      Ultimately I feel for the employees and they should try to make sure they aren’t out of pocket (they are getting a pay uplift to London Living Wage) but we cannot insist all businesses never make efficiency savings just because that is the way it has always been ….

    10. Throbbie-Williams on

      Why is this an issue? The school wants 43 weeks worth of work, why should they have to emply for the full year?

      Edit: and the wage increase if they accept means they earn more money from less work than they do now