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To: Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London
Bring London's Tube Cleaners in-house
We the undersigned support the pledge made in Labour’s New Deal for Working People to ‘oversee the biggest wave of insourcing of public services for a generation’ and we believe that wherever Labour is in power it should be working to end the scourge of outsourcing, which creates low pay, two-tier workforces and reinforces inequality. We welcome the Mayor of London’s commitment to review the outsourcing of 2,000 cleaners on London Underground in April 2023 and urge him to ensure that these hard-working Covid heroes are finally brought in house.
Why is this important?
London’s 2,000 Underground cleaners worked heroically throughout the pandemic and they deserve better than to be outsourced to a US company that holds down their pay, pays no sick pay and gives them no pension scheme, while it making more than £14 million in profit during the pandemic.
Wherever Labour is in power it should be working to end the scourge of outsourcing, which creates low pay, two-tier workforces and reinforces inequality.
The campaign to insource these cleaners has won support from across the labour movement including the TUC, the London Labour Regional Executive, the Labour Group in the London Assembly, 11 London Labour MPs, 9 London Labour peers and more than 200 London Labour Councillors.
In April this year, the Mayor has promised to review this contract again. With your help we can persuade him to end the scourge of outsourcing on the Tube and commit to bring these cleaners in-house.