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Demonstration planned in support of cleaning strike

The SSP/VPÖD public services union has organized a demonstration on 2 September in support of the ISS cleaning employees who work at Geneva airport and who have been on strike for over seven weeks. The union is calling for ISS to apply the collective agreement in force at the Swissport company that subcontracted the cleaning. ISS has imposed individual contracts on the workers that means they are between €175 and €1000 a month worse off depending on their length of service.
Read more at > SSP/VPÖD (FR)

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