UK: Facilities mgmt co. Samsic agrees to pay Condé Nast migrant cleaners the London Living Wage after threat of strike action
摘要
日期: 2023年5月11日
地点: 英国
企业
Condé Nast - Client , Samsic - Employer受影响的
受影响的总人数: 数字未知
外劳和移民工人: ( 数字未知 - 美洲 - 未知行业 , Gender not reported , Documented migrants )议题
Poverty Wages , Strikes and other work stoppages回应
已邀请回应:是,由Journalist
后续行动: Workers won an 11% pay rise. Samsic did not comment prior to the article's publication.
信息来源: News outlet
“Condé Nast cleaners win 11% pay rise”
A group of cleaners working at the London offices of global media business Condé Nast, which owns Vogue, Vanity Fair and Tatler, among other brands, have won an 11% pay rise, backdated to 1 April.
The employer outsources the cleaning of its offices at the Adelphi Building in Central London to international facilities provider Samsic.
The cleaners, who are primarily Latin American and members of trade union for migrant workers United Voices of the World (UVW), threatened strike action over their pay rates. The business agreed to pay them the London living wage of £11.95, which is calculated by the Living Wage Foundation based on the cost of living.
Samsic, which has a total revenue of £75 million for its UK division, has committed to automatically increasing the workers’ wages in line with the London living wage rate every year.
Petros Elia, general secretary at UVW, said: “While we are thrilled that the cleaners have won a historic and retroactive pay rise, the fact that they had to threaten to go on strike is an indictment of the exploitative hypocrisy of big businesses who are happy to make massive profits on the back of outsourced ancillary workers on poverty wages…
Samsic was contacted for comment prior to publication.