unions and student acted today as the demand for the cleaning staff to be given equal status as other ancillary staff at the esteemed London school of economics, the protesters took there argument straight to the door step of Noonan the third party contractors.
the protest met with security resistant with scuffles erupting.

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For decades the cleaner's T&C's have been significantly and untenably inferior to their in-house counterparts, creating a two tier workforce at the LSE. This inequality has not only caused substantial hardship for the cleaners on an individual level, but has also created a been divisive and socially corrosive for the LSE community. Consequently, the cleaners, in their own words, have felt “invisible” and “second class”.

For the past several months the cleaners union UVW, together with LSE staff and students, have been publicly requesting for this injustice to be remedied and for the cleaners' T&Cs to be equalised with in-house LSE staff of equivalent grade.

To the cleaners' consternation that neither of your responses satisfactorily addressed, or addressed at all, the concerns raised or demands made in our letter of 10th November 2016. In fact, the cleaners considered their responses to be as vacuous as they were disrespectful.

Nonetheless, in good faith and to demonstrate that every possible and reasonable step is been taken to avert a strike, the cleaners have instructed their union UVW to extend from 18th November until 2nd December 2016, the deadline given to the LSE and Noonan to allow them respond with a reasonable time-scale of implementation of their demands which are as follows:

-Alba Pasimo is reinstated to her former position
-London Living Wage (currently £9.75) be implemented by or backdated to 1st December this and every year indefinitely;
-occupational sick/maternity/paternity/adoption pay equivalent to the rates received by in-house LSE staff of equivalent grade;
-annual leave entitlement equivalent to the levels received by in-house LSE staff of equivalent grade;
-pension contributions, for those that wish to opt in to the scheme, equivalent to the rates received by in-house LSE staff of equivalent grade;
- assurances that, as was the case of 8 years before Noonan's arrival, after exhausting their paid leave entitlement that cleaners that wish to take unpaid leave to visit family that live a long-haul flight away are entitled to do so, exceptional operational constraints permitting;
- assurances that the workloads of the cleaners and supervisors, which are considered by the cleaners to be excessive and causing them great physical and psychological strain, are reviewed and ultimately reduced;
- assurances that Noonan's disciplinary proceedings are reviewed and reformed as they are currently too readily invoked and are often based on trivial and poorly investigated complaints;
- assurances that a changing room will be provided for the cleaners on site at the LSE;

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UVW is a grassroots trade union comprised almost entirely of low-paid migrant workers.
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