Tell EY: No Cuts to Cleaners

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Tell EY: No Cuts to Cleaners

EY Regional Managers

As cleaners for Ernst & Young, one of the four largest consulting and accounting firms in the world, we are outsourced to a company called MITIE.

MITIE has now announced a wave of redundancies in order for them to be ‘more efficient for the client’. Currently 37% of roles are at risk at redundancy. This is an absurd amount of cuts, and is sure to leave remaining workers burdened by the excessive workload created by such a significant reduction in staff.

Ernst & Young is not beyond exploiting its most precarious workers to maximise its profit - the company declared a revenue of 40 billion GBP in just one year.

In 2017, cleaners at E&Y were also facing unjust redundancies. With the support of our union IWGB, we fought back and managed to fully stop all redundancies.

But now, EY is once again attempting to make a number of its workers redundant and putting our livelihoods and wellbeing at risk.

We are asking you to rally around us, raise your voices, and demand that Ernst & Young puts a stop to these extreme redundancies.

Please sign this petition to send a letter to Ernst & Young telling them you stand with the workers who keep the billion pound company running.

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IWGB Cleaners and Facilities Branch

To: EY Regional Managers
From: [Your Name]

We are writing to demand that Ernst & Young stop the proposed redundancies across both its sites where cleaning services are subcontracted out to MITIE.

In an attempt to be ‘more efficient’ for you, MITIE is proposing to cut around 37% of cleaning staff.

This is an absurd amount of redundancies. Not only will it put the affected cleaners and their families under immense stress and financial strain, such a significant reduction in staff is also sure to leave the remaining workers burdened by the excessive workload.

Ernst & Young is a global company, raking in revenue of 40 billion pounds in 2024. Nevertheless, it continues paying its cleaning employees poverty wages at only £13.85 an hour. On top of this, EY is now attempting to once again reduce its staff, and put an unsustainable amount of roles at risk.

We therefore demand that Ernst & Young:

● Stop the proposed redundancies and
● Hold a collective consultation process - organised through workers’ trade union
representatives.

I look forward to your urgent response to these shocking attacks on migrant and precarious workers.