CLEANERS at Kensington and Chelsea council claimed a major victory today after the council finally committed to pay them the London living wage (LLW).

The United Voices of the World (UVW) union announced that the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) had agreed that its cleaning staff, currently paid the legal minimum wage of £7.83 an hour, would receive the LLW rate of £10.20 an hour from January 2019.

During a meeting attended by council leader Elizabeth Campbell and chief executive Barry Quirk, RBKC also pledged to “review their current terms and conditions on early termination of a 10-year contract with Amey who the cleaners are currently outsourced to,” the union said.