LUMS Students Against Subcontracting

A student-run movement against subcontracting in LUMS.

[LUMS Students Against Subcontracting @endsubcontracts]

Today, alongside our khokha stall, we are also having a twitter storm from 7-10pm using #EndSubcontractingLUMS!! If you believe that LUMS should directly hire it's janitors, give them health cards, paid leaves and basic human rights, please join us! VOICE YOUR CONCERNS 🙏

[LUMS Students Against Subcontracting @endsubcontracts]

Thekeydaari Nizam is a problem everywhere. Subcontracting needs to go from all over Pakistan! Recognising BASIC rights should not be this hard! Thank you for sharing this, Fawad.

[Nida Kirmani @NidaKirmani]

Protest against the treatment of janitorial staff at LUMS happening right now. Students and faculty demanding an end to subcontracting and the fair treatment of all of LUMS’s staff, particularly those who are the most vulnerable. #endsubcontractingatlums

[mnoor @percynatsu]

today an Aya baji was so scared that she’ll lose her job. it broke my heart. her husband is unemployed and she has children to tend to. she’s one of the many workers who are in fear everyday of what’ll happen #endsubcontractingatlums #endsubcontracting

[Ali Usman Qasmi @AU_Qasmi]

@NidaKirmani @nawalzj Even from a purely 'rational' perspective, direct hiring of janitors will lead to cost reduction and increased productivity. If nothing else, LUMS must end subcontracting because it is a betrayal of neo-liberal logic!
#EndSubcontractingLUMS

[Ammar Rashid @AmmarRashidT]

It is beyond time that @LifeAtLUMS lives up to the values it claims for itself and ends the practice of keeping its janitorial staff in an exploitative state of precarity & economic insecurity. More power to these students for fighting this battle.
#EndSubcontractingLUMS

[phatma @wimpykidxx]

#EndSubcontractingLUMS

[Nida Kirmani @NidaKirmani]

More power to students near & far standing up for their rights to study without fear & for the rights of those exploited by their universities right now! ✊🏽
#RestoreStudentUnions #EndSubcontractingLUMS
#harvard
#Muskan
#letafghangirlslearn
#releasehafeezbaloch

[LUMS Students Against Subcontracting @endsubcontracts]

Want to know how you can contribute to the movement to #EndSubcontractingatLUMS? Take a look at this information, and do your part to stand up for human rights of janitorial staff at #LUMS

[Hassan @hassanimtiaz88]

Human beings are not temporary commodities!
#EndSubcontractingLUMS

[inland empire @fezagain]

Subcontracting allows way too much room for unethical practices which we must condemn and we see these horrors happening on a daily basis!! #EndSubcontractingLUMS

[mouthbreather @nyle1910]

If we fail to end subcontracting, we will be complicit.  #EndSubcontractingLUMS

[mouthbreather @nyle1910]

A system built on the oppression of its most marginalized and vulnerable communities should have no place within LUMS. #EndSubcontractingLUMS

[Nida Kirmani @NidaKirmani]

There is absolutely no reason an institution like lums cannot directly hire all of its staff members including the janitors. The only explanation for not doing so is kanjoosi & small-heartedness. It’s shameful. #EndSubcontractingLUMS

[LUMS Students Against Subcontracting @endsubcontracts]

Students of #LUMS gather at khokha and protest for the 11th year running to #EndSubcontractingatLUMS: a system where long term workers are kept 'temporarily' through a third party contractor, denying them basic rights. RAISE YOUR VOICE AGAINST THIS!

[LUMS Students Against Subcontracting @endsubcontracts]

Financial constraints only exist when paying workers! Not when paying 75 lakhs to the VC? Hypocrisy! #endsubcontractingatlums

[LUMS Students Against Subcontracting @endsubcontracts]

It is cheaper for LUMS as a university to hire its workers directly than overpay a middleman: but the individuals on our university board are close to the owners of these subcontracting companies. This is the nature of Pakistan's elite: fight this! #endsubcontractinglums