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The root cause of this injustice is outsourcing: the sub-contracting of university services, like cleaning, catering and security, to private companies. Staff members directly employed by UCL all receive atMore least LLW, but those employed by the private companies do not; indeed, before the Living Wage Campaign at UCL, the wages of outsourced cleaners were kept depressed at the minimum wage, a poverty wage in London. The privatisation has therefore created a two-tier workforce: UCL staff who get half-decent conditions and pay, and subcontracted staff on poverty wages. Furthermore, outsourcing introduces extra layers of management and profit-making, meaning that it may not even save money for UCL: in other words, public money, including fees, goes to private profit and greedy shareholders rather than the staff who earned it and keep the university running. We therefore demand an end to privatisation, as recognition of the essential work cleaners, catering and security staff perform at UCL.

Sign the petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ucllivingwage/

To find out more about the campaign, email: ucllivingwage@gmail.com

Like the Campaign on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/ucllivingwagefb

Follow the Campaign on Twitter: @UCLLivingWage

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The London Living Wage (LLW) is calculated every year by the Mayor of London’s office as the wage needed to stay out of poverty in London. The 2011-2012 LLW is £8.30/hour, well above the national minimum wage. The full ‘LLW package’ includes other work 'conditions’ which make for a minimum quality of life: ten days sick pay, overtime opportunities, maternity leave, 28 days holiday, a decent pension, and union representation. The LLW package is set at a level meant to ensure earners and their dependants can have:

* adequate warmth and shelter
* a healthy, palatable diet
* social integration
* enough time away from work to avoid chronic stress

The LLW is not a legal requirement; however, it is an ethical requirement as well as a sound investment in staff. Even David Cameron has endorsed it. Poverty pay is morally wrong, and people living in poverty are cannot work effectively. All the Universities in Bloomsbury (including SOAS and Birkbeck) pay their workers the LLW, and for several years we have been campaigning at UCL to get cleaners, porters, security and catering staff (people without whom the university could not function) paid the LLW.
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Deliveroo evades minimum wage laws and other workers rights by pretending that its delivery riders are "self-employed". On Thursday, UCL has invited this gig economy giant's Director to come and tell us aboutMore all the cash he's raking in. We're demonstrating to make sure his exploited workers' side of the story is heard too - come and join us!

THU, OCT 5, 2017

Protest Deliveroo boss at UCL: respect workers’ rights!

UCL Roberts Building
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Every day, we will be posting one action you can take to make the world a better place. Each daily post will suggest you sign petition orMore support campaign, volunteer some of your time, donate to a certain charity, read a certain article or book, help you make more ethical consumer choices, and more!

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Please sign this petition and spread the word: tinyurl.com/uclucleanerspetition. Recently, the workers who clean our student union were threatened with the prospect of dramatic cuts to their working hours,More which would severely damage the ability of many of these relatively low-paid workers to make ends meet. They have begun organising to oppose the cuts through their trade union. To support them, the elected union council reps voted to scrap the plan. However, it is possible that the union's trustee board - a bureaucratic committee that includes a number of unelected non-students - will choose to void the vote and go ahead with the cuts anyway! Please sign to call on the board to respect democracy, and respect the rights and well-being of the cleaners.

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UCL student petition: Respect UCLU’s cleaners, respect democracy

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Picturehouse workers are fighting for the London Living Wage and fairer sick pay and maternity/paternity pay. Next Saturday we’ll be going to support their strike picket lines. Come with us!

SAT, OCT 15, 2016

Supporting Picturehouse Living Wage strikers

Meet at UCL Gower Street main gates to travel over
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This is two days away (and followed by UCLU Labour's end-of-year party!) What the Conservative government has in store for education is a big threat, and it's up to us to stop it, so come along, find out what the score is, and let's get stuck in.

FRI, JUN 3, 2016

Fees, debt and privatisation: stopping the Tory plans for our universities

Engineering Front Suite 104 (Roberts Building 1st floor)
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