Insourcing Merseyrail cleaners

Early day motion 1063, tabled 10 March 2022 by Dan Carden (Labour). Signed by 24 members.

That this House believes that the pandemic has demonstrated beyond doubt the essential nature of cleaning and cleaners on public transport; notes that outsourcing these workers has delivered low pay, exploitation, disputes and corner-cutting in the drive to create profits; further notes that Mitie's contract with Merseyrail comes to an end next year; believes that insourcing would create better jobs with fairer pay and make it easier to drive improvements in service quality; and urges Merseyrail to sit down with the RMT union and work up a fully-costed proposal to bring these key workers in-house.

Signatures by party: Labour 18, Independent 2, DUP 1, Green 1, Labour/Co-operative 1, Scottish National Party 1.