Allied campaigns

Below is a list of other campaigns and groups, many in Bloomsbury, which the UCL Living Wage Campaign supports.

3Cosas Campaign

At Senate House, outsourced workers at the University of London won the LLW in 2011 and since then have been campaigning for sick pay, holiday allowance and pensions equal to university employees. Find out more about the 3Cosas campaign on their website. In 2013, they have organized a more and bigger actions with ULU to build their campaign: like their Facebook page and follow them on Twitter to keep in touch.

 

 

SOAS Justice for Cleaners Campaign

Similarly, SOAS cleaners are fighting for equal terms and conditions with university employees, and to be brought back in-house, as Queen Mary cleaners were. Find out more and how to get involved on their Facebook page.

Birkbeck Justice for Cleaners Campaign

In 2009, Birkbeck was forced by a cleaners’ campaign to pay the Living Wage. However, recently the college tried to claw some of this money back. It changed its agreement in December 2012 with the contractor, Ocean, to reduce its cleaning requirements. Under the new contract, the cleaners would have 15 minutes cut from their hours each day: this equals a 12.5% pay cut! Birkbeck have now caved in to the cleaners demands and will pay transitional funding. Read the letter Birkbeck’s cleaners sent to their management here.

Bloomsbury Fightback!

Bloomsbury Fightback! brings together students, workers, and other trouble-makers from across Bloomsbury to fight the worst exploitation inflicted by management under the auspices of ‘austerity’, to defend the pockets of critical thought and common learning we see under attack, and generally to disrupt the processes of our immiseration. BF! has strong connections with trade unionists and students at UCL, Senate House, Birkbeck and SOAS. Find out more on their website and on Facebook.