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Cleaners' Charter Launched!
Monday 20 April was the 3rd anniversary of the Clean Start campaign launch.
Cleaners marked the occasion around the country by launching the Cleaners’ Charter and pledging to make the Charter a permanent fixture in buildings where cleaners have won their new Clean Start Collective Agreement.
In Adelaide 35 cleaners attended Clean Start's 3rd birthday celebrations in Rundle Mall and City Cross in the centre of the city. A delegation marched to the local Property Council office. The delegation presented the Property Council with the Charter and a copy of the Property Council's own letter to LHMU in 2007 in which they expressed support for prevailing rates and 4 hour minimum start.
In NSW and ACT cleaner leaders met to plan the next steps locally, to display copies of the Cleaners’ Charter in their buildings. Cleaners around the country are holding similar meetings in the upcoming weeks to plan a Charter workplace launch.
The Cleaners’ Charter is the part of the Clean Start Agreement that delivers respect for cleaners. it acknowledges the crucial role cleaners play in their industry. It is progressively being put up in Clean Start buildings across the country.
Like the Clean Start campaign itself, the 3rd birthday celebrations expressed strength through diversity with cleaners from many different cultural backgrounds taking part.
The charter can be found here on the LHMU website.
What can you do?
Ask cleaners in your building if they've won a Clean Start. Congratulate them on their win!
Cleaners in my building still don't have a Clean Start. How can I support them?
Clean Start is about a Fair Deal for ALL cleaners. So sign the online petition asking those cleaning companies who haven't yet signed the Agreement to sign today!
I'm a cleaner and I want a Clean Start!
Get in touch with your site delegate or leader to find out what you can do to win a Fair Deal too.
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Image: Delegates Russell Spencer, Arthur Tsimopoulos, Alan Spark (all ISS), Di Lockett (Phoenix) and Gayle Aiston (ISS) outside the Property Council office in Gawler Place, Adelaide.
