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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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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