United Voice, the cleaners’ union, representing cleaners at Westfield malls, has shelved strike action in favour of a worldwide sweep through the global retail giant’s books, states Mike Seccombe in a 19 November article from The Global Mail. For two years the giant Westfield shopping-centre group has refused to countenance demands to back a modest […]
19 November, 2013United Voice, the cleaners’ union, has warned the O’Farrell Government to keep its hands off the contract cleaning industry’s portable long service leave scheme, stated an 8 November press release. ‘NSW treasurer Mike Baird announced the NSW Government would undertake a “scoping study” to improve the governance and administration of the state’s two portable long […]
10 November, 2013The cleaner’s union, United Voice, ran the first of a series of raids on cleaning company Glad Group last week after exposing its practice of repeatedly underpaying international students, stated a 26 September press release. The raid confirmed that subcontractors engaged by integrated property services company Glad Group were illegally paying international student cleaners almost […]
30 September, 2013As reported yesterday, Swan Services was placed into voluntary administration by its directors on Wednesday 22 May. INCLEAN approached the Building Service Contractors Association of Australia (BSCAA) and the cleaner’s union, United Voice, to make comment… “Bob Swan has been a colourful identity in the cleaning industry for more than 40 years, and his company […]
24 May, 2013On 22 May major cleaning company Swan Services, run by founder and owner Robert Swan for 43 years, went out of business, ‘putting 2500 cleaners across Australia – and an estimated 800 in Victoria – out of work’ stated a report by Stephen Cauchi in The Age. Anthony Wayne Elkerton and David Gregory Young of […]
23 May, 2013A United Voice campaign focused on improving working conditions for hotel housekeepers continues to gain media traction. The 23 February Sydney Morning Herald news story highlighted time allocated to do hygiene tasks as well as the tools provided to housekeepers. ‘Hotel cleaners are taking hygiene shortcuts to meet deadlines to fix rooms in 15 minutes, […]
25 February, 2013The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has commenced immediate inquiries into fresh allegations by the cleaner’s union United Voice that international students working as cleaners are being exploited at major shopping centres. The FWO has recovered hundreds of thousands of dollars for underpaid cleaners, many of them foreign workers, in the past two years and cleaning […]
27 November, 2012The cleaner’s union United Voice has released the names of shopping centres nominated by the public as ‘Australia’s dirtiest’ according to votes from its Grimewatch website. The tongue-in-cheek campaign was designed to help ‘name and shame the shopping centres and cleaning contractors who continue to force brutal workloads on the cleaners who simply want the […]
11 September, 2012‘School cleaners fear their jobs may be outsourced after the Newman government issued a new directive allowing it to waive job security rules in current public sector pay agreements’ reports Daniel Hurst in a 1 August Sydney Morning Herald article. However, a spokeswoman for Queensland Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek said he would maintain the current agreement […]
2 August, 2012Maintaining an ongoing message that cleaners ‘employed’ by many sub-contractors are much worse off than its award wage paid cleaners, Spotless released another PR release mid-June. ‘Over the last 18 months the United Voice union has used shock tactics that are disrespectful to cleaners as they threaten to leave shopping centres unclean,’ stated the Spotless […]
20 June, 2012Most industry observers have been awaiting fall out from Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) audits that were conducted on CBD sites as far back as late 2009. We are now finally witnessing some official action with its concomitant negative publicity. Two major Sydney-based building service contractors were named in a Sydney Sun Herald (10 June 2012) […]
10 June, 2012Code of Conduct for Fair Service Provision in Shopping Centres will be enforced by an independent body in line with ACCC guidelines. This was emphasised at a recent industry meeting by Shopping Centre Council of Australia’s executive director Milton Cockburn. The ongoing industrial dispute between the cleaner’s union United Voice and the Building Service Contractors […]
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