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Commercial laundries want YOU!

The UK’s Textile Services Association (TSA) has come together with the European Textile Services Association (ETSA) and others to throw open the doors of the commercial laundry industry to the public. The aim? To demonstrate and promote careers in textile ...

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CHSA seeks a new Independent Inspector

The Cleaning & Hygiene Suppliers Association (CHSA) is seeking a new Independent Inspector. The Inspector is crucial to the CHSA, guaranteeing the integrity of the Association’s highly respected Accreditation Schemes. The new appointee will be an experienced quality assurance professional ...

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Leading from the frontline

Sean Fisher, Managing Director, Cleaning at OCS My career in the cleaning industry began with very humble roots as a kitchen porter working in a busy conference centre close to Finsbury Square. I worked long hours and learnt how to ...

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BCC chairman slams speech by Suella Braverman

The leader of the organisation representing one of the UK’s biggest industrial sectors has slammed Monday’s speech by Home Secretary Suella Braverman for ‘once again ignoring’ a £59 billion pound industry, ignoring her own Government’s facts that there are over ...

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Business expansion creates 600 new jobs at Cleanology

In the past 12 months, Cleanology took on 600 new staff, during a period of record-breaking growth that saw the company win new contracts in London, as well as spearheading a national expansion ranging as far afield as Scotland, Bristol ...

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GOSH cleaners confront hospital in ground-breaking court case over years of “institutional racism”

Yesterday saw the start of a 10-day tribunal hearing where Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) faces a first of a kind group claim for indirect race discrimination brought by 80 Black, brown and migrant cleaners. For decades, the cleaners were ...

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Home Secretary’s remarks about migrant workers and unskilled labour are ‘divorced from reality’ says BCC

Leaders of one of the UK’s biggest industries have branded the Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s comments about reducing migrant workers entering the country as “ridiculous”, “completely out of touch” and “divorced from reality”. The £59 billion cleaning, hygiene and waste ...

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Survey shows people scrambling for cleaning work as they feel the cost-of-living squeeze

The cleaning sector is seeing a surge in people seeking extra sources of income as the cost-of-living crisis bites. A survey by staffing platform redwigwam has revealed the full impact that the crisis is having on people’s lives already. The ...

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Strike averted as GOSH agrees to give hundreds of cleaners full NHS contracts

United Voices of the World (UVW) has announced that a two-day strike, which had been due to take place at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), has been averted. Last minute concessions by bosses at GOSH mean hundreds of cleaners, who ...

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Navigating the storm: the changing perceptions of a good employer

Former Institute of Hospitality CEO Peter Ducker has spent a lifetime in the hospitality industry and is a member of P&G Professional’s Expert Advisory Council. I have never really understood the phrase ‘Perfect Storm’, not that I’ve ever thought about ...

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