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Details of mitie-immigration raid

“When she arrived in this room, the manager Donna Sidley and another woman called Ivon were laughing their heads off.” Seven cleaners were detained after a raid by immigration police on 14th July, which took place with the complicity of … Continue reading

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Demo Report and more details of immigration raid

Over 70 people demonstrated outside the Willis Building in support of the detained Mitie Cleaners  – and the continued persecution of organised migrant labour. More details on raid: 7 Cleaners get detain in an immigration raid with the complicity of … Continue reading

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Mitie – More Migrant Cleaner Raids

Today the Cleaners at Willis building get invite by Mitie for a chemicals training course, when all the cleaners were ready for the course, immigration officers raid the room and detain 3 cleaners, 1 Ecuadorian and 2 Bolivians. We invite … Continue reading

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Migrant Cleaners on the March in Athens

Article about solidarity with Constantina Kouneva, the 44-year-old Bulgarian general secretary of Athens’s association of cleaners and domestic staff who was attacked by assailants who threw acid in her face in December: Cleaners of the autonomous PEKOP union march in … Continue reading

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SOAS cleaners update

SOAS cleaners update http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/07/433893.html More news is emerging of just how dehumanising and brutal have been the effects of the immigration raids at SOAS organised by external contractor ISS shortly after the cleaners won union recognition and pay rises to … Continue reading

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FREE THE SOAS CLEANERS!

SOAS directorate block occupied over brutal deportation of SOAS cleaners University cleaners who won living wage detained after dawn raid Students and allies at the University of London’s School of School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) have occupied the … Continue reading

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CLEANER ACTIVIST ARRESTED IN COMPANY ENTRAPMENT

Many of you will know Alberto, a Colombian activist who worked as a cleaner at Schroders in the City of London who has recently been involved in the Mitie/Willis dispute and has spoken at various union branches and forums in … Continue reading

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Amey offices entered as campaign for sacked colombian cleaners grows

More than twenty protestors entered the offices of Amey Plc in High Holborn on Friday in protest at the sacking of five Colombian cleaners and the rejection of their appeal. The protesters entered the office building to give a petition … Continue reading

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