End poverty pay at our stations Network Rail has contracted out the work of cleaning six of its stations to outsourcing giant Mitie Group plc. If you use Glasgow Central, Edinburgh Waverley, Liverpool Lime Street, Manchester Piccadilly, Leeds City or Birmingham New Street stations, you’re passing through stations that are cleaned, day and night, by people who are surviving on poverty pay. Mitie pay their cleaners the legal minimum wage of just over £8 an hour. RMT wants them to pay them at least the Living Wage Foundation’s ‘Real Living Wage’ of £9 an hour, the rate that takes account of living costs.
Mitie Group – Fat Cat profit and low pay Mitie can more than afford to pay. Over the last six years, Mitie Group has paid dividends worth £177 million to its shareholders. Mitie’s CEO Phil Bentley enjoyed a remuneration package (including his base salary, pension, benefits and annual bonus) last year of £2.2 million. That means Bentley earns 176 times the average salary of an employee of Mitie Cleaning and Environmental Services. Yet Mitie refuse to pay their cleaners a Real Living Wage.
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Network Rail – get your house in order Network Rail is a publicly owned company that says it wants to be ‘a place people are proud to work’ and ‘one of Britain’s best employers’. But they seem happy enough that cleaners working for Mitie and cleaning their stations are refused a Real Living Wage, leaving more than 50% struggling to make ends meet. Network Rail’s CEO Andrew Haines made £371,000 in 9 months last year, about 40 times what a Mitie cleaner earns over the same period. Network Rail needs to put its money where its mouth is and make sure everyone who works for it gets a Real Living Wage.
Public anger is growing More than 80,000 people have signed a petition calling on Mitie and Network Rail to pay their cleaners properly. MPs in Westminster and MSPs in Scotland have tabled motions condemning Mitie and Network Rail.
What can you do? • Add your name to the more than 80,000 who have signed the petition here: http://bit.ly/mitiecleaners
• Email Network Rail boss Andrew Haines (andrew.haines@networkrail.co.uk) and ask him to sort the situation out now.
• Email Phil Bentley, CEO of Mitie Group (phil.bentley@mitie.com) and ask him to pay his cleaners the Real Living Wage now.
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