THE FOLLOWING EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED!
Demonstrate outside Birkbeck college's Open Evening this Thursday 5 Feb, 5pm-630. map: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/openeve
The Open Evening will be held at the Royal National Hotel, 38-51 Bedford Way WC1H 0DG. Please join us to demand that Birkbeck College's managers scrap poverty wages for caterers and cleaners, without whose work the College could not function.
Please send this out as a text to spread the word:
'Thu demo: demand LIVING WAGE 4 Birkbeck College cleaners&caterers 5pm-630@college Open Evening@Royal Nat'l Hotel 38-51 Bedford Wy WC1H0DG'
Please make and bring your own placards!
Birkbeck College now pays its fatcat boss ('Master' David Latchman) over £200,000 a year, after several big pay rises. Yet he insists on enriching private cleaning and catering company shareholders with our hard-earned tax money and student fees. The shareholders get even richer by paying poverty wages - £5.73 at Birkbeck, with no job security.
Demand justice and the London Living Wage! £7.45 plus fair annual leave, sick pay and union recognition. Demand in-house, secure, decently paid jobs for everyone who works in higher education, especially at Birkbeck College, which markets itself on building better lives for working people. We say that's nonsense, unless and until it scraps poverty wages under its own roof.
See http://www.livingwageemployer.org.uk/the_living_wage.html and http://www.bbk.ac.uk/unison/local/living for details.
2 Feb 2009
18 Nov 2008
John McDonnell MP to address campaign this Thursday 20 Dec at Birkbeck Bar 5pm
18 Nov 08 Press release from the London Living Wage campaign at Birkbeck College
EVENT: MP John McDonnell to address 20 NOV 08 public meeting
John McDonnell, MP for Hayes & Harlington, will speak at a public meeting held by the Birkbeck College London Living Wage (LLW) campaign on Thursday November 20th at 5pm in the Birkbeck Bar, on the 4th floor of the main Birkbeck College building in Malet Street, Bloomsbury London WC1E 7HX. The campaign is sponsored by the Birkbeck students union and the College trade unions Unison, Unite and UCU.
map: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps
McDonnell, a politics graduate from the College, is a strong advocate of the campaign to pay London workers more to meet the rising costs of living and working in London. He will be joined by speaker Jose Stalin Bermudez, Chair, SOAS Unison. Low income SOAS workers won their own Living Wage Campaign last academic year. (SOAS LLW Info: http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/unison/slwc/news.htm)
The Greater London Authority under Ken Livingstone initiated the campaign for all London workers. The LLW is set at £7.45 per hour and defined as ‘the threshhold at which people can live above the poverty level in London with a sufficient safety net to also provide for quality of life’.
Mayor Boris Johnson also supports the campaign, and the GLA is a Living Wage employer.
Birkbeck’s low-paid catering & cleaning staff are currently paid by contractors at the national minimum wage of £5.73 per hour. Benefits such as sick pay and annual leave are set at the legal minimum and workers have no recognised trade union to defend their interests. Meanwhile other University of London colleges such as Queen Mary, LSE and SOAS have agreed to pay the London Living Wage to their staff.
The College's mission statement is to 'Provide part-time higher education courses which meet the changing educational, cultural, personal and career needs of adults; in particular those who live or work in the London region.'
The campaign therefore asks why Birkbeck, being the one College within the greater University of London geared towards improving the job prospects of working students, is not prepared to pay London workers on its premises a decent, dignified living wage.
Additionally, the campaign will hold a protest rally outside the College Governors meeting on Wednesday December 3rd (also in the main Malet st building) at 5pm to publicise this injustice. See website and further press release for details.
contact us: 07092 846 053, livingwage@unions.bbk.ac.uk and www.bbk.ac.uk/unison/local/living and look for us on Facebook.
EVENT: MP John McDonnell to address 20 NOV 08 public meeting
John McDonnell, MP for Hayes & Harlington, will speak at a public meeting held by the Birkbeck College London Living Wage (LLW) campaign on Thursday November 20th at 5pm in the Birkbeck Bar, on the 4th floor of the main Birkbeck College building in Malet Street, Bloomsbury London WC1E 7HX. The campaign is sponsored by the Birkbeck students union and the College trade unions Unison, Unite and UCU.
map: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps
McDonnell, a politics graduate from the College, is a strong advocate of the campaign to pay London workers more to meet the rising costs of living and working in London. He will be joined by speaker Jose Stalin Bermudez, Chair, SOAS Unison. Low income SOAS workers won their own Living Wage Campaign last academic year. (SOAS LLW Info: http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/unison/slwc/news.htm)
The Greater London Authority under Ken Livingstone initiated the campaign for all London workers. The LLW is set at £7.45 per hour and defined as ‘the threshhold at which people can live above the poverty level in London with a sufficient safety net to also provide for quality of life’.
Mayor Boris Johnson also supports the campaign, and the GLA is a Living Wage employer.
Birkbeck’s low-paid catering & cleaning staff are currently paid by contractors at the national minimum wage of £5.73 per hour. Benefits such as sick pay and annual leave are set at the legal minimum and workers have no recognised trade union to defend their interests. Meanwhile other University of London colleges such as Queen Mary, LSE and SOAS have agreed to pay the London Living Wage to their staff.
The College's mission statement is to 'Provide part-time higher education courses which meet the changing educational, cultural, personal and career needs of adults; in particular those who live or work in the London region.'
The campaign therefore asks why Birkbeck, being the one College within the greater University of London geared towards improving the job prospects of working students, is not prepared to pay London workers on its premises a decent, dignified living wage.
Additionally, the campaign will hold a protest rally outside the College Governors meeting on Wednesday December 3rd (also in the main Malet st building) at 5pm to publicise this injustice. See website and further press release for details.
contact us: 07092 846 053, livingwage@unions.bbk.ac.uk and www.bbk.ac.uk/unison/local/living and look for us on Facebook.
3 December Birkbeck College Governors meeting WILL face our protest
18 Nov 08 Press release from the London Living Wage campaign at Birkbeck College
EVENT: Birkbeck College Governors meeting will face London Living Wage protest rally Wednesday December 3rd
A protest rally outside Birkbeck College’s Governors meeting on Wednesday December 3rd at 5pm is planned to publicise the
plight of the college’s poorly paid cleaners & catering staff. Birkbeck trade unions Unison, Unite, UCU and the students Union have been lobbying the college’s management for over a year now to pay the London Living Wage (LLW).
EVENT: Birkbeck College Governors meeting will face London Living Wage protest rally Wednesday December 3rd
A protest rally outside Birkbeck College’s Governors meeting on Wednesday December 3rd at 5pm is planned to publicise the
plight of the college’s poorly paid cleaners & catering staff. Birkbeck trade unions Unison, Unite, UCU and the students Union have been lobbying the college’s management for over a year now to pay the London Living Wage (LLW).
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