JUSTICE FOR CLEANERS AT KING’S COLLEGE LONDON

Posted on September 15, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged abuse, academic staff, accountability, Bush House, campaigning, cleaning, deportation, direct action, discrimination, economic discrimination, exploitation, featured, gendered labour, health and safety, homophobia, immigration, immigration raid, IWGB, Justice for Daniel, KCL J4C, King's College London, LSE, LSE J4C, migrant labour, migrant rights, neoliberalism, occupation, outsourcing, pensions, racialised labour, Servest, sexual harassment, SOAS, SOAS J4C, SOAS nine, solidarity, students, trade unions, UCU, UCU strike, UKVI, Unison, university management, University of London, university staff, UVW, workers, workers rights.

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By KCL Justice for Cleaners Campaign

Content warning: mentions sexual harassment, homophobic abuse

This week, the KCL Justice for Cleaners Campaign released a short film revealing the struggles of migrant cleaners at King’s College London, a day before management made a recommendation to the College Council as to whether to end the outsourcing of cleaning. Through the film, cleaners speak in their own words about the violence of the outsourcing model and how mistreatment at KCL is normalised.

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SHAME ON SOAS – OCCUPIERS PROTEST TREATMENT OF CATERING STAFF

Posted on June 13, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged #SHAMEonSOAS, BME, Bouygues, catering, closures, Community, Elior UK, fair pay, London Living Wage, Lucas Lecture Theatre, migrant workers, ob cuts, occupation, occupy, outsourcing, peaceful protest, redundancies, rights, SOAS, SOAS refectory, SOASJ4C, student activism, student unions, unions, universities, women workers, workers rights, zero hours contracts.

By SOAS Justice for Workers

Yesterday, on the 8th anniversary of the deportation of 9 SOAS cleaners, students of SOAS began an occupation of the Directorate on the Main Building first floor. We are taking direct action in resistance to the planned shut down of the refectory and outrageous threats made by management to the livelihoods of members of our community. We stand in solidarity with the catering staff, and all the exploited workers of SOAS, in their fight for dignity and respect.

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