Do you think your working conditions are adequate? “No! I’m sending this email at 23:59 In February 2018, Jason Murugesu and Peter Fitzsimons wrote in The Cheese Grater ,“a battle is raging at UCL, one that will define the very nature of the university for the decades to come.” Two and a half years later, […]
From September 2018, UCL will outsource employment of temporary workers to an external agency, Unitemps in a move which UCU representatives have described as ‘undermining … staff rights’ and propagating an ‘anti-university community culture’. Student Ambassador jobs will be the first to be outsourced. However, in time, all temporary and non-academic student contracts will be
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Variety being the spice of life, Soc Bitch has this month directed her withering gaze towards the strike-related drama on the UCU picket lines. (Men’s Rugby best not get too comfy, though — we’ll get back to you soon x) It is with a heavy heart that Strike Bitch must announce that the scabs are
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It’s hardly the weather for the picket line. All around campus, small pockets of UCL academics are picketing as part of the national UCU strike. Larger groups, such as that outside the Institute of Education, wear hi-vis vests, and carry placards; others, such as those outside the houses on Gordon Square, are fewer in number
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A battle is raging at UCL, one that will define the very nature of the university for decades to come. It all came to a head this week at a town hall-style meeting in the Cruciform chaired by former cabinet minister and former Chair of UCL’s governing body, Lord Young (who was, inexplicably, wearing a
