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HUNDREDS of support staff at University College London (UCL) protested yesterday against outsourcing and demanded equal pay.
Caterers, cleaners, porters and security guards working at UCL — one of the country’s wealthiest universities — called for their jobs to be brought back in house.
They were joined by trade unionists and the university’s Labour Club at a rally outside UCL’s main building in Bloomsbury.
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
Our members face daily abuse, being spat at, sometimes even deadly assaults, and employers fail to take the issue seriously despite the increasing danger, writes RMT general secretary EDDIE DEMPSEY
