UCL Justice for Workers

A student campaign to support UCL cleaners, porters & security officers in their struggle to end outsourcing! #inhousenow

Also on Facebook & IG: /uclj4w

[UCL Justice for Workers @uclj4w]

🚨Join us tomorrow (26/05) as we support @IWGBUoL members and let @ucl & @LSHTM know exactly what we think of discriminatory pay and working conditions ✊🔥

[IWGB Universities of London @IWGBUoL]

🪧 PROTEST THIS THURSDAY - 5pm @ MALET PLACE 🪧

Join @IWGBunion members at UCL and LHTSM fighting for an end to outsourcing, equality and fair pay.

✊ Come down, bring your friends, and join our fight for justice!

[UCL Justice for Workers @uclj4w]

Solidarity to outsourced workers at @LSHTM who have voted to strike! This is brilliant news and we will be there to support them 🔥

[IWGB @IWGBunion]

BREAKING: Outsourced workers at @LSHTM have voted UNANIMOUSLY to strike over pay, following union victimisation.

40 days before in-housing, LSHTM still refuses to negotiate with IWGB, despite representing the majority of workers.

Donate to strike fund: https://t.co/YeBV6JBFJ9

[UCL Justice for Workers @uclj4w]

🚨 TODAY'S THE DAY! Protest for direct employment & fair working conditions at @ucl & @LSHTM with @IWGBUoL
🕐 5pm
📍 Malet Place, @ucl
🔥 See you there ✊

[UCL Justice for Workers @uclj4w]

⚠️URGENT ACTION TODAY, 2PM
Please come & show solidarity with outsourced @ucl security officer Mohammad Zahid as he fights his unfair dismissal – your support could make all the difference
📍Print room cafe, @ucl
⏰Meet at 1:30
https://t.co/Nt2vsDKd4t

[IWGB Universities of London @IWGBUoL]

Mohammad Zahid, a security officer employed by the subcontractor Bidvest Noonan at UCL is being dismissed after being accused by a colleague of stealing a pair of headphones that appeared at the Lost & Found office on the exact day that they were declared missing.

[UCL Justice for Workers @uclj4w]

Happy Thursday! Wondering how you can get involved with j4w this March?
📍Open meeting TODAY, 5pm, Foster Court
📍Breakfast stall tomorrow (4/3), 8am, @IOE_London
(Room numbers tbc)
🗣️Come & chat to students & workers about what we do!

[UCL Justice for Workers @uclj4w]

⚠️ATTENTION: Open meeting next Thursday (24/02) to talk planning, campaigns & direct action!
📍Foster Court @ucl, room tbc
⏰ 5pm
Come along to find out how you can get involved, however much time you have to spare. Everyone is welcome ✊

[UCL Justice for Workers @uclj4w]

Our Friday morning cleaners & security breakfast stalls are back! ☕️

Message us for dates and come join us if you're around! 🥐

[UCL Justice for Workers @uclj4w]

⚠️UCL Justice 4 Workers is back! Join us next Thursday 18/11 for a screening of the award-winning Limpiadores, followed by a Q&A with director Fernando Mitjáns & remarks from @IWGBUoL's @maritzacalle12. More details to follow ✊

[UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge @UnisNotBorders]

@UnisNotBorders & @migrants_rights in today's @Independent along w/ Tier 4 international students interviewed how they are struggling to eat because of #NRPF & inadequate support from their universities.

Thank you @maybulman for covering:

https://t.co/N0PfjsiYqA

[UCL Justice for Workers @uclj4w]

When university workers are under attack, what do we do? STAND UP FIGHT BACK! 🔥🔥🔥 @UoLondon

[IWGB Universities of London @IWGBUoL]

" @UoLondon , we need our jobs, a lot of people rely and depend on us, specially during a very difficult situation such as the current pandemic. You have taken the easiest way: dismissing us. Reflect and reconsider this decision”

@londonu: cleaners are not disposable.

[UCL Justice for Workers @uclj4w]

No worker is disposable!! @UoLondon, don't abandon your staff in the face of a recession, reverse the cuts and avoid distruptions! Simple ✊✊✊

[IWGB Universities of London @IWGBUoL]

“Our families wait for our help every month in order to survive back in our home countries. @uolondon: say no to redundancies”

@londonu: No to redudancies of frontline workers.

[UCL-End Outsourcing!✊ @iwgbucl]

Last week, AXIS’ Ldn Operations director affirmed that “parity comes with a cost” to defend cuts of hours

Well, it is now confirmed that the ‘levelling up’ is funded by @ucl, with no cost to AXIS, who falsely claim this to simply increase their profit by cutting hours illegally

[UCL-End Outsourcing!✊ @iwgbucl]

UCL’s security are fighting back, calling for ‘No cuts and no sham consultations’.

Support them by sharing this far and wide!

[UCL-End Outsourcing!✊ @iwgbucl]

This is truly shocking and calls into question @UCL’s pledge to give their outsourced staff parity of terms and conditions with directly employed staff.

[UCL-End Outsourcing!✊ @iwgbucl]

If Fitzpatrick is telling the truth and @UCL is driving the changes, then they have given with one hand, and are now trying to take away with the other.

Security officers were given a 9% pay rise due to their campaign, but some are now facing a 30% drop in their wages.

[UCL-End Outsourcing!✊ @iwgbucl]

It is not yet clear how many security officers will lose hours or be otherwise impacted by the proposed changes. And it is not clear whether the rationalisation plan is being driven by AXIS or by @UCL.

[UCL-End Outsourcing!✊ @iwgbucl]

AXIS Operations Director John Fitzpatrick claims that the proposed cuts to hours are needed as a direct result of @UCL’s decision (following our campaign) to improve people’s terms and conditions, which has increased the costs for UCL.

[UCL-End Outsourcing!✊ @iwgbucl]

Some AXIS managers have stated in the ongoing consultations that there are now too many security officers on site due to the recent surge in recruitment of officers and the costs are too high for @UCL. Around 280 security officers work at UCL currently.

[UCL-End Outsourcing!✊ @iwgbucl]

Those strikes resulted in the improvements in terms and conditions that John Fitzpatrick mentioned in the consultation meeting.