Here's another view of the cleaners who demonstrated at Goldman Sach's Fleet Street HQ. This is a picture of the sit-in they staged in the lobby, complete with their "Goldman Sucks" signs. They chanted "No wages, no peace." (Earlier today we showed the scuffle outside.):
Maria from Portugal was one of the cleaners at the protest. She works two jobs for £5.35 an hour. She said, “I have been a cleaner for five years. Most of the companies I’ve worked for don’t show cleaners any respect....
“They treat us like the rubbish we’re paid to take out. These big businesses survive because the cleaners are there. They get huge raises but they won’t give cleaners holiday or sick pay.
“We’re here to fight for a little dignity. If the cleaners are paid just a little more then we wouldn’t need to take two jobs. You could have a normal life.”
When workers tried to occupy the lobby some were knocked down by security guards. After ten minutes of protesting people tried to leave but the police stopped us.
Low paid cleaners: 'Why we invaded world's #1 bank' - SocialistWorkerOnline
Cheap Bastards! While they are gloating about their huge bonuses, people are scrubbing their bathrooms for less than $300 per week. Think about it they spend more for a bottle of wine than one of their cleaning staff make in a week. I bet the I-bankers were shaking in their John Lobb's calling their bitchy little Upper East side wives telling them "Honey this is just terrifying!!"
Posted by: JD | November 28, 2006 at 09:31 PM