Canberra Cleaners Protest - Tuesday

All Canberra Cleaners Want for Christmas is a Clean Start

8 December 2009

Media Alert

ANU students and community supporters will join with ANU cleaners outside Burton and Garran Halls on the ANU Campus to force Spotless Services to grant the cleaners a long overdue Christmas wish Clean Start Fair Wages.

The other major cleaning contractor at the ANU - who employs around 100 cleaners at the University - signed the Clean Start Agreement earlier this year. Those cleaners have been getting an additional $43 per week since July.

The dozen or so cleaners who work for Spotless Services however have been missing out.

Spotless pays office cleaners Clean Start rates but has so far refused to extend the Clean Start Agreement to the Burton, Garran and Toad Halls. ANU has done its part. The University has long supported fair wages for cleaners.

The protestors will travel to the Entrance of CSIRO on Barry Drive and continue their demonstration against Broadlex Clean Australia who has repeatedly refused to sign the Clean Start Agreement despite the Commonwealth Government supporting the Clean Start Agreement.

"The protests are intended to remind the ACT cleaning industry that cleaners will not rest until every cleaner in every ACT building receives a Fair Deal." said Lyndal Ryan.

"The best Christmas present any cleaner could receive at this time of year is a wage increase. If Spotless and Broadlex want Santa to remember them, they need to stop being naughty and start being nice."

What: Two Protest Actions
Where: Burton and Garran Halls ANU Campus
When: 8.00am Tuesday 8th December
Where: Entrance Gates CSIRO Barry Drive
When: 8.30am Tuesday 8th December

Media Contact Lyndal Ryan 0411 643 982

www.lhmu.org.au


SOURCE: LHMU