The campaign for a proper Living Wage (currently £10.20 per hour) for outsourced staff across Government departments has spread from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), where cleaners in UVW Union took 3 days of strike action at the beginning of the month, to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), where PCS BEIS branch are now making the same claim on behalf of their support and outsourced members.

On 5th September UVW and PCS Union members at MoJ and BEIS HQ are coming together for a joint rally and call out to their respective Secretary of State’s to intervene and pay up! Time is up on poverty pay and second class contracts for outsourced workers.trade unions and shadow cabinet started the new session of Parliament with a lunchtime action in central london united voices of the world , and THE PCS union where joined by shadow cabinet mps in yet another round of strikes within the dept of justice and the dept of trade , John mcdonnell laid out the labours commitment to all trade unions and the foundation of a living wage ,
for the low paid workers promising an end to outsourcing which is seen as exploitation