RAIL workers today welcomed the support of prospective Labour candidates for the London Assembly elections to support the RMT’s campaign against Sadiq Khan’s privatisation of cleaners on London transport.

The rail workers’ union published a list of candidates in the May elections who have supported a statement for the union’s campaign to press the Mayor of London into bringing 2,000 outsourced cleaning workers into direct employment.

Transport for London’s (TfL) handing of cleaning operations on the Underground to the multinational corporation ABM, while the Vinci employment agency recruits workers to clean the Overground, was criticised in the statement.