Members across ISS have voted by just over four-to-one to accept an 11-month pay offer which delivers a fully consolidated rise of 85p-per-hour to well over a thousand housekeepers and security guards working on the outsourced facilities services provider’s BT contract.

No fewer than 81% of those participating in an electronic consultative ballot which closed yesterday (Tuesday) supported the CWU-brokered deal, which includes two additional weeks of backdated pay.

That’s because although the pay rise effectively became due on May 1, ISS had agreed in talks to retrospectively apply the Real Living Wage (RLW) uplift from April 17 if the deal was ratified by members.

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