As the situation worsens, we are working longer hours for less pay. This is all why the richest get richer. Make no mistake, the richest are not suffering under this crisis. The burden is being put on the working class. By uniting, coming together and fighting against the system, we can win. Join us and fight. Read more about the suffering for worker’s under the crisis.
A lecturer at Sandwell College in the West Midlands has been sacked for writing the words “racist” and “should be illegal” on a poster promoting the government’s so-called counter-terrorism programme, Prevent. The system is absurdly defined as “a community safeguarding programme”. In reality, the decision by the college to Read more…
The nominations have been collected and candidates announced for the upcoming UCU general secretary elections, following the resignation of former GS Sally Hunt due to health reasons. Above all, we need a leadership that is willing to fight for our sector against the bosses and Tory government. The “continuity” Read more…
SOAS is currently undergoing an intense re-structuring. With a £7.1m gap in the budget, the dire financial crisis at SOAS is no secret. According to a report commissioned by UNISON and UCU Execs, the school is facing “an existential crisis”. Throughout the entire restructuring process, higher management have isolated Read more…
This week, London’s High Court dismissed the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB)’s bid for outsourced workers to negotiate directly with the third parties they work for. The bid was on behalf of roughly 75 workers who are employed by the security company Cordant, and carry out work Read more…
Several hundred workers demonstrated through central London yesterday (Tuesday 26 February) to demand an end to outsourcing and precarious work. The IWGB, PCS, and UVW unions led joint strike action to bring out cleaners from the University of London and facilities workers from the government Department for Business, Energy Read more…
Sally Hunt, General Secretary of the University and Colleges Union since 2007, has stepped down following a long period of inactivity due to ‘ill health’. The news of the end of Hunt’s 12-year reign came, coincidentally enough, a few days after an HE strike ballot over stagnant pay failed Read more…
“A six-hour-per-week contract will often demand double that amount of time.” The worker describing this appalling exploitation in their workplace was not employed in a factory during the times of Charles Dickens: they work in a university in 2019. Nor is this sort of regime of overwork confined to Read more…
UCL Unison have recently launched a campaign to bring outsourced cleaning, catering and security staff back in house under the same conditions as staff directly employed by UCL, under the slogan #BringThemIn. The campaign has also received support from UCL Labour Society. This comes as a welcome development following efforts Read more…
After successes at the London School of Economics (LSE), Kings College London (KCL), the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and others, outsourced workers at London universities are proving that determined and militant campaigns get results. Strike action, demonstrations, and student solidarity have forced university management to agree to Read more…
UCU members at 16 further education colleges will down tools in 2019 in response to a 25 percent pay cut over the last decade. Last year, workers at 10 colleges struck over pay, and they will be joined by colleagues at six further institutions this year for another round of Read more…
On 20th November, Marxist student and NUS delegate Nico Navarro Padrón passed a motion through SOAS Union’s General Meeting to support the struggles of precarious workers. The motion, unanimously accepted by the UGM, will now be brought to the NUS conference in April next year. As Marxists, we are Read more…
The Mark Andrew Development (MAD) hospitality group recently went bust, leaving over 100 workers in the City of Manchester without a job. 125 staff at pubs, clubs and other venues in Manchester all owned by MAD entertainment were given no warning or support from their employer when the company Read more…
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