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Schoonmakers binden strijd aan met multinationals
beteretoekomst - 19.11.2007 21:26
Afgelopen zaterdag vond de lancering plaats van een campagne in de schoonmaaksector. Hier een verslag. Deze week begint de campagne en er is hard hulp nodig. Voor meer info zie  http://www.beteretoekomst.org
Last Saturday, a campaign in the cleaning sector was launched. Here a report. This week campaigning starts and help is needed. See http://www.beteretoekomst.org
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Schoonmakers binden strijd aan met multinationals
17 november 2007 - Honderden schoonmakers kwamen vanmiddag op Schiphol naar de startbijeenkomst van een campagne voor tien euro per uur en een respectvolle behandeling door werkgevers. De schoonmakers roepen ook de opdrachtgevers van schoonmaakbedrijven op om ze te steunen.
“De problemen waar wij nu mee kampen worden deels veroorzaakt door de schoonmaakbedrijven, maar de opdrachtgevers zijn ook verantwoordelijk. [...] Daarom roepen wij vandaag alle opdrachtgevers op om ons te steunen. Zij kunnen hun schoonmaakbedrijven vragen om de nieuwe CAO te tekenen”, aldus schoonmaker Dina Govers uit Den Haag.
Schoonmakers uit Maastricht zeiden dat schoonmaakbedrijf CSU, dat onlangs tot ‘beste werkgever’ is uitgeroepen, in feite slecht met zijn personeel omgaat. Een buitenlandse werknemer kreeg zelfs maar zeven euro per uur, wat illegaal is.
Het lage salaris van de schoonmakers staat in contrast met de rijkdom van de topmanagers van de schoonmaakbedrijven. Drie staan op de Quote 500 lijst van rijkste Nederlanders, zo maakte Zwarte Piet vanmiddag bekend.
FNV-voorzitter Agnes Jongerius zei dat het moeilijk zal zijn om de multinationals aan te pakken die alles doen om kosten te besparen ten koste van de schoonmakers. “Het is een ongelijke strijd, maar wel een strijd die we kunnen winnen”.
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Cleaners ready to take on multinationals
17 November 2007 - Hundreds of cleaners met at Schiphol this afternoon to kick off a campaign for ten euro per hour and a respectful treatment by their employers. The cleaners also call on clients of cleaning companies to support them.
“The problems we are facing are partly caused by the cleaning companies, but the clients are responsible too. [...] Therefore we call on all clients to support us. They can ask cleaning companies to sign the new collective agreement”, cleaner Dina Govers from the Hague said.
Cleaners from Maastricht said that cleaning company CSU, which recently received a ‘best employer’ award, in fact treats its employees far from good, paying one immigrant worker even as little as seven euro per hour, which is illegal.
The low pay of the cleaners contrasts with the riches of the CEOs of cleaning companies. Three of them are on the Quote 500 list of richest people in the Netherlands, Zwarte Piet announced at this afternoon’s meeting.
Chairwoman Agnes Jongerius of the Netherlands Trade Union Confederation (FNV) said that it will be difficult to take on multinational corporations that will do anything to cut costs at the expense of the cleaners. “It is an unequal fight, but it is a fight that we can win”.
 E-Mail: steundeschoonmakers@gmail.com  Website: http://beteretoekomst.org
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| Read more about: Schoonmakers-Campagne | | supplements | | | Polit-clowns, Singer-clowns & Clowncleaners | Rebelact - 20.11.2007 12:07
We saw the pictures and read the story: of course it was all about the cleaners. But also the entertainment industry was there in solidairity: we saw very nice, colourful Turkish dancers, we heard Joop Visser singing (wellknown from 1964 -1975 as Jaap Fischer). Also a real Gospel Choir (the cleaners have the support of the Lord!) and 2 politicians; one from the Green Left (Naïma Azough) and the only coloured one from the SP-fraction of 25 Members in the Second Room: Saadet Karabulut.
For us, the clowncleaners, it was a great chance to demonstrate how well we are trained in cleaning: we cleaned everything, even the stage. The politicians are clearly not used to hold their banal speeches while such profound actvities are going on next to them! And Agnes Jongerius felt in love with a clown: she got really red when one clown kissed her, and there are rumours that she is going to quit her boring job at the trade union and join the underground city guerilla of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army: uuhh!
Unfortunately Santa Claus and a lot of black piets came, so we had to run away from the circus!
E-Mail: rebelact@ddh.nl
Website: http://www.rebelact.nl
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