“We’re cleaners and we’re proud of it… Some people think that because we’re cleaners… we don’t deserve anything more than what we’ve already got… This is wrong.”
These are the words of Latif*, a cleaner who has joined forces with 79 other Black, brown and migrant cleaners to sue their employer, the Great Ormond Street Hospital, (GOSH) over years of what they describe as racial discrimination.
The group, who are from ethnic minority backgrounds, say they were not offered NHS staff contracts, meaning they lost out on the higher salaries, sick pay, overtime and holiday pay that other directly employed, majority-white GOSH workers received.
