Finish outsourcing at College of London: 5 years in the past, on Wednesday twenty fifth April 2018 I used to be with employees from the Impartial Staff Union of Nice Britain – IWGB on the primary day of a two day strike on the College of London central administration by over 100 cleaners, porters, safety officers, receptionists, gardeners, submit room workers and audiovisual workers.
They have been calling for an finish to the outsourcing of their jobs within the college to varied contracting firms and demanding to be immediately employed by the College, and obtain the identical situations and advantages as immediately employed colleagues. In addition to the employees, teachers, college students and different commerce unionists got here to help them in a vigorous rally outdoors the gates to Stewart Home in Russell Sq…
The rally was a part of a profitable marketing campaign led by the IWGB which started in 2010 and ten years later the college central administration modified to immediately make use of porters, receptionists, submit room and audio visible technicians, with cleaners following shortly after in November 2020.
The IWGB are nonetheless campaigning to convey employees in-house in different universities in London, together with UCL, and so they and different unions have been profitable elsewhere. United Voices of the World are considered one of these and a few of their members had come to the rally to point out their help.
Right here’s what the IWGB say about their marketing campaign:
Cleaners and safety workers at universities throughout London are organising for equality with directly-employed workers!
Outsourced employees undergo from far worse phrases and situations than directly-employed colleagues, dealing with no sick pay, naked minimal vacation entitlement and meagre pensions. Bullying, mismanagement and discrimination by unaccountable outsourced managers are frequent.
Staff within the IWGB union are main the fightback. By means of public campaigning and strike motion we will finish outsourcing at London universities!
Among the many audio system on the gates of Senate Home was Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell who additionally introduced help from Jeremy Corbyn and promised a Labour authorities would usher in new commerce union legal guidelines and finish the unfairness of outsourcing. Sadly ought to we now get a Labour authorities on the subsequent election its insurance policies will probably be extra about defending firm income than defending employees.
There have been loads of others in addition to IWGB members who spoke, and one was a lady from UCU at Goldsmiths College who had include a big donation from them to the strike fund.
Billy Bragg got here to present his help, singing three songs, and obtained us becoming a member of in on a few of them, and Archie Shuttlebrace sang with Rebecca Wade Morris. Chip Hamer (Grim Chip) and one other of the poets from Poetry on the Picket Line carried out a few of their work.
Then it was time for a march round Russell Sq., with over 200 individuals briefly holding up site visitors. The march was lead by the yellow Precarious Staff Cellular three-wheeler and a samba band.
They returned to the gates of Stewart Home and the rally continued with extra music, poetry and dancing.
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