rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/petition/justice-for-ucl-workers-end-outsourcing?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-petition-area-justice-for-ucl-workers-end-outsourcing' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> IWGB Universities of London Branch https://actionnetwork.org/groups/iwgb-university-of-london-branch-2 https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/petitions/photos/000/146/624/normal/WhatsApp_Image_2019-10-07_at_20.33.31(2).jpeg JUSTICE FOR UCL WORKERS - END OUTSOURCING AT UCL Outsourced workers at UCL are fighting for equality. Security officers, cleaners and porters across UCL are united and determined to fight to end the scourge of outsourcing and win justice, equality and dignity for all workers at UCL. Outsourced workers at UCL suffer from far worse terms and conditions than our colleagues who are directly employed by UCL. - We receive no occupational sick pay, meaning we are forced to work while we are sick in order to survive. - Our bare miniumum holiday entitlement means we do not get paid during UCL closure days, and it is very difficult for many of us with families in other countries to travel to see them. - Our meagre pensions mean we do backbreaking work into old age and then retire into poverty. - Increasingly, since the latest subcontractors took over the contract, many of us are on precarious zero hours contracts, which make it hard to know if we will be able to stay in these jobs for long. We are also more likely to suffer from bullying and discrimination by unaccountable outsourced managers. And we are faced with frequent issues of mismanagement: since Axis took over the security contract at UCL, they have repeatedly failed to pay security officers correctly for our holidays. Despite being one of the richest universities in the country, UCL continues to treat the mostly Black, Asian, Latin American and minority ethnic outsourced workforce as second class workers, denying us the basic employment rights that all other UCL employees take for granted. We are preparing for our almost 300 members to take strike action over our terms and conditions. We demand equality of terms and conditions with UCL's direct employees and we demand an end to outsourcing. WE ARE ALL ONE UNIVERSITY AND ONE WORKFORCE. IT’S TIME FOR UCL TO END OUTSOURCING. https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/justice-for-ucl-workers-end-outsourcing