Unsung
heroes
Anybody travelling in London early in the
morning will see a sight that has a lot to do with London life. The buses are
full of people on their way to work. The armies of Office cleaners are now off
to work where they will spend the early hours of the morning cleaning the
offices and getting them ready for the
workers to come in later
This army will definitely be hard at work
soon doing their allotted slot. Mostly thee jobs are fairly low paid and low
status with many migrants filling that oriole. The trouble is that as a group
they are taken for granted. Who knows but nobody wants to work in a dirty
office or sit in a dirty establishment.
And yet we really owe our cleaners something
in terms of the work they do. So clearly the message is out of sight, out of
mind yet if it was not for this army of early morning workers we would not have
the clean work places that we take for granted.
Yet many of them are on the minimum wage
with the prospects for advancement in the industry rather limited. For many
people it is a way round their limited knowledge of English. The sector remains
quite busy though competitive as cleaning is a necessity and subject to less
cutbacks.
However one thing is certain. Cleaners do
not get the recognition they deserve.
