Birkbeck cleaners win fight to be directly employed

Cleaning staff at Birkbeck College in London have won their long-running struggle to have their jobs transferred back in-house.
Yesterday was their first day of direct employment since the service was outsourced in the late 1990s. The workers will benefit from improved conditions, plus access to the SAUL pension scheme.
Birkbeck UNISON campaigns officer Edwin Clifford-Coupe said: “The cleaning staff and their UNISON representatives have campaigned courageously for an end to the injust