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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