Security staff at one of the UK’s most prestigious universities are to walk out over pay and union recognition, their representatives have said, as the cost of living crisis continues to bite.
Workers at University College London (UCL), employed via the contractor Bidvest Noonan, are demanding an increase in their hourly rate that their union says would see them paid the same nominal amount UCL guards got more than 20 years ago – before the jobs were outsourced.
But the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) said even this higher rate would not come close to reversing the erosion caused by two decades of inflation.
