University of London cleaners say they are not taken critically by the uni, and are striking on the day of a visit by Princess Anne. Photograph: Oscar Webb
On Wednesday evening, Princess Anne will pay a visit to the University of London to celebrate the university’s foundation day. Which is if she can get via the picket line.
University cleaners are striking for simple rights, such as sick spend, and are joined by college students, uni staff and the Independent Workers of Fantastic Britain union (IWGB).
The strike has currently disrupted the planned go to, with Jason Moyer-Lee, branch secretary for the IWGB union, saying: “Delivery trucks are not crossing the picket line, we have turned them all away.”
Campaigners have been tweeting the action, saying: “Piano for Princess Anne turned away”, and “almost one hundred individuals and a conga line now in full swing.” Protests will continue during the evening, as visitors arrive to see the Princess.
Cleaners are fighting for the same rights as other staff at the university. Moyer-Lee says: “At the minute the cleaners only have statutory sick shell out, which indicates they are not paid for the first 3 days they’re sick.
“It indicates individuals come into function when they are unwell – that is a very common factor here. There’s one particular cleaner who fractured her pelvis and had to come into operate injured.”
Sonia Chura, a cleaner and vice chair of the union branch says:
We have a good deal of work to do in very couple of hrs. A good deal of my colleagues have back ache. We can’t afford to get sick and if we do we risk shedding our jobs.
We see this as discrimination. We feel like we’re not important to the university and that they will not get us critically. They see this as a joke.”
Earlier this week, Guardian College students spoke to a former university cleaner who stated: “There is not significantly I have not cleaned up. Faeces on the walls. Blood from fights. They employed to flip utilized condoms within out and smear the contents down the banisters.”
Occupy Sussex reoccupy
In excess of at the University of Sussex, students are protesting about the privatisation of uni companies, including catering, and have reoccupied a space on campus utilised by the catering employees for conferences.
An Occupy Sussex spokesperson says: “This transfer of providers to the personal sector is indicative of the underlying trend of marketisation in increased schooling.”
Occupy Sussex accuse Chartwells of poor employment practices, including getting a amount of staff on zero hours contracts.
But a Sussex university student who functions portion time for the catering business says: “I think their argument is flawed, it really is mainly philosophical and ideological. I am on a zero hrs contract due to the fact I want to work element time.”
She says: “A good deal of the protestors are exceptionally rude. Last night a student protestor threw a mobile phone at the head of protection. There are other methods to protest.”
The student caterer worries how the occupation will impact her and her colleagues. “The occupation last yr meant we had to near early. It’s cutting individuals of their hrs. Men and women are worried about losing their overtime that they are dependent on.”
Leading unis are even now “socially exclusive”
Top unis are as “unique as ever”, the head of a respected feel-tank claimed in his farewell lecture this week.
Bahram Bekhradnia, director of the Increased Schooling Policy Institute, explained: “Posh students go to posh universities due to the fact they do far better at school and significantly less posh college students go to significantly less posh universities since they do less properly at school.”
He mentioned there has been hardly any progress over the last 10 years. “However, there is little if any progress to report. The current increases in participation by students from bad backgrounds have almost completely been to the less prestigious universities.”
Bekhradnia suggested that British universities need to comply with the instance of American institutions, which “explicitly engage in social engineering”, so that they take on students from various backgrounds.
He warned there is “unfinished company” in Britain, if we want to have a “world-foremost” larger schooling system.
No Far more Webpage three snowballs on campuses
Leeds has turn out to be the 28th university to assistance the No A lot more Web page 3 campaign and ban sales of The Sun on campus. The decision was produced by Leeds University Union on Monday evening, by a panel of 13 college students.
Other universities to ban The Sun consist of UCL, Cambridge, Cardiff, Durham, Edinburgh and Newcastle. Sheffield University Union has gone a stage even more and said that it will promote No Much more Web page three T-shirts, alternatively of The Sun.
Younger individuals across the nation also took component in protests this month, in an hard work to place a stop to “bare breasts” in the family members newspaper. Will students bring about change? Stephanie Davies-Arai of the No Far more Webpage 3 campaign says she thinks they can: “Young men and women have this kind of electrical power, use it,” she says.
Uni cleaners strike on day of royal visit
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