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Mitie workers backed in their fight for a living wage
OUTSOURCED cleaners at Scotland’s two biggest railway stations have been commended by MSPs in their fight for a living wage.
Cleaners employed by Mitie at Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley are calling for bosses to pay them the real living wage of £9 an hour.
Now Labour MSP Elaine Smith, who chairs rail union RMT’s parliamentary group at Holyrood, has tabled a motion in support of the cleaners.
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