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Tube workers who clean trains to strike in industry's biggest ever national walkout

The tube workers who clean the trains have voted to strike over pay, in what would be the industry's biggest ever national walkout.

The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) said more than 1,000 of its members working for several private contractors backed the industrial action.

The union is demanding a wage of £15 an hour, sick pay, decent holidays and good pensions from contractors, and the union's executive will decide next week what days the strikes will take place.

They come as a number of other industries have also recently announced strikes including nurses ahead of what will be a winter of discontent for workers across the UK.

RMT general secretary Mick Lynch (

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RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: "This is a historic result and I congratulate cleaner members across the transport network.

"It is scandalous that multimillion-pound companies are making hand-over-fist profits while not paying cleaners properly.

"RMT will fight every step of the way to end the super-exploitation of contracted-out cleaners and will not rest until these greedy companies pay up."

The tube workers are set to join nurses, civil servants, postal workers and charity staff in downing tools in the fight for better pay and job conditions.

The tube workers are just the latest to announce they are downing tools (

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Spiralling inflation and a cost of living crisis - leaving countless Brits reliant on food banks - has piled misery on millions who have decided enough is enough.

Hundreds of thousands of workers across sectors are set to walkout in the huge wave of industrial action.

This includes train workers who have recently announced another eight days of action, disrupting two whole weeks - one just before Christmas and one just after.

More than 40,000 RMT members across Network Rail and 14 train companies will take strike action on December 13, 14, 16 and 17 and on January 3, 4, 6 and 7.

For the first time in its 106-year history the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) balloted members over a walkout and a staggering 300,000 nursing staff are now expected to join the unprecedented strike action.

Similarly, junior doctors are set to be balloted in January and could follow their colleagues out the door.

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