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What Do University Cleaners and Lecturers Have in Common? A Short History
As the LSE cleaners' strike continues, Laura Schwartz argues the university management's intransigence is about averting a victory which will benefit all higher education workers.
5 Things You Need to Know About the LSE Cleaners’ Struggle
Organising through a grassroots union, cleaners at the London School of Economics have declared a formal dispute with their employer to secure a living wage, sick pay, holidays, and maternity and paternity leave.
3 Reasons the UAL Occupation Matters to FE, HE and the Free Education Movement
Like other recent direct actions such as at LSE, the University of the Arts London occupation is rooted in the free education movement. But the task of articulating longer term goals alongside combating immediate course cuts presents fresh challenges for students in the face of an ongoing restructuring of education.