More than 100 cleaners working for support services firm OCS on its Eurostar contract are to be balloted on industrial action in a row over pay.
Members of the RMT union are to be asked to vote to strike and for action short of a walkout to back their campaign for a minimum pay rate that matches London mayor Ken Livingstone’s recommendation of a living wage of at least £7.05 an hour.
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“OCS is paying cleaners as little as £5.50 an hour, even for nights, Sundays and bank-holiday work, and that is simply not good enough,” said RMT general secretary Bob Crow.
“If OCS [managers] want to avoid industrial action it is up to them to come back to the talks table and negotiate decent pay rates,” Crow said.
