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Report: ‘Hasta La Victoria!’ University of London Cleaners Win Ten-Year Battle Against Outsourcing

by Polly Bindman

Cleaners at the University of London have won staff contracts after nearly a decade of struggle, in a major victory against outsourcing that could help other workers fight for their rights. Polly Bindman reports.

‘We need everyone who can to unite with us’: Fighting Outsourcing at the University of London

by Joe Hayns

On Thursday outsourced staff at the University of London will be going on strike to demand they be brought back in-house. Joe Hayns spoke to workers and IWGB activists about how their campaign has grown and developed over the past year.

I’m a Social Work Student Who Went on Fee Strike. Here’s What I Learned

by an Anonymous Student

Social work students at Goldsmiths university went on strike last year, when they discovered at the last minute that their NHS bursaries would not be enough to cover their increased course fees. One participant reflects on what he hoped to achieve and what he learned from taking part in the UK's first student fee strike.

The Occupation Is Over, But Justice for SOAS Workers Must Still Be Fought For

by Charlie Macnamara

Outsourced staff at SOAS have won their most pressing demands, but management's behaviour, and the ubiquity of outsourcing at UK universities, means the struggle cannot end here.

‘A Battle for the Soul of UCL’: The Academics Confronting Corporatisation in Higher Education

by Charlie Macnamara

A group of senior UCL academics have successfully challenged an attempt by management to wrest even more democratic control of the university from those who work there. But with the corporatisation of higher education sweeping across the UK, this fight will need to be taken beyond UCL.

Organised Rage: The LSE Cleaners Strike

by Joe Hayns

The LSE cleaners, represented by United Voices of the World, have staged a two day strike to fight for sick pay, maternity and paternity leave, and pensions. Led by migrants and women, the strike shows the potential for grassroots, fighting trade unions to win big victories.

5 Things You Need to Know About the LSE Cleaners’ Struggle

by Joe Hayns

Organising through a grassroots union, cleaners at the London School of Economics have declared a formal dispute with their employer to secure a living wage, sick pay, holidays, and maternity and paternity leave.

What is #ShutdownSOAS?

by Callum Cant

Yesterday a SOAS trade unionist was suspended for "gross misconduct", having expressed solidarity with an ongoing student occupation. Today students and staff managed to close the university down in retaliation.

#ReclaimIWD: 7 Reflections from Inside the University of London’s Feminist Occupation

by Helena Dunnett-Orridge

8 March is International Women’s Day, and to mark the occasion free education activists from across the country have spent the weekend in an occupation of Senate House at the University of London.

6 Reasons the Defence of ULU is Vital to Students Everywhere

by Michael Chessum

The University of London Union is due to be closed down by University of London management on 1 August. If all goes to Vice Chancellor Adrian Smith's plan, the building will be seized and the union replaced by a management-run 'student service centre'. Since 2010, ULU has in many ways been at the heart of the student movement nationally, and its closure is indicative of a broader trend of commercialisation in the sector.