This is a report of a meeting which took place on Thursday April 26th in UCL student union, supported by Bloomsbury Fightback!, Carpenters Against Regeneration Plans (CARP) and UCL Anti-Cuts. Six speakers, comprising residents and a UCL student and staff member, presented their own take on the current situation. This was followed by a screening … Continue reading
Organised by UNISON with the workers concerned, and supported by UCU, London Citizens, the NUS, numerous London-based NGOs and MPs including local representative Frank Dobson, the Campaign calls for all contracted-out employees working within the Central University of London to receive paid sick leave, to be represented by a recognised trade union, and to receive … Continue reading
The “Bloomsbury Masterplan” promises a futuristic Metropolis of “circulations systems”, “cellular spaces”, “key perimeter points”, “enhanced landscaping”, even “enterprise incubators”. But it’s less a grand design than a shocking piece of cloth-eared spin-doctoring. UCL management’s bureaucratic flights of fantasy, business-speak hype, and manipulative rhetoric of modernization all bring a great university into disrepute. The masterplan … Continue reading
from the Anti-Cuts Space. Dear Malcolm Grant, On April 14, you issued in your weekly newsletter to staff a statement about the relationship between different kinds of UCL worker. The newsletter was about the preeminency of the ‘academic mission’ at the institution. Referring to workers in ‘Estates, or Registry, or HR, or Finance’, you earnestly … Continue reading
