Cleaners around the country have nominated property company Allco as the winner of the inaugural Golden Toilet Brush Award to be handed out today...Allco...has declined repeated invitations to meet cleaners' representatives...They are the only major property owner to refuse to meet to discuss the Clean Start: Fair Deal for Cleaners campaign..."...We can only believe that they [Allco] are completely indifferent to the poverty level incomes, high rates of injury and work pressures experienced by cleaners in large office buildings." Jeff Lawrence, LHMU Cleaners Union National Secretary said..."By contrast we are extremely happy with the cooperative approach taken by their competitors. Companies like AMP, GPT, Investa, Multiplex, ISPT, Stockland, Colonial First State, DB RREEF and Macquarie have all expressed their broad support for the Clean Start Principles..."...[link to 24-page research paper at the bottom]