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The Living Wage Campaign

 

One of the most exciting and important – as well as successful – campaigns at the LSE from 2005 has been the Living Wage Campaign, seeking to make sure that all SU and school employees, especially previously deprived contracted employees (like cleaners), are paid a London Living Wage of at least £7.20 per hour (rather than the national minimum wage) to ensure that LSE employees can afford to live in the capital at its high living costs.

 

The LSE SU is proud to be a Living Wage employer to all its employees. After almost 2 years of impressive campaigning, the Living Wage Campaign successfully won a commitment from the school to ensure that all of its employees, including those operating through contracted parties, would be guaranteed a London Living Wage.

 

Started in 2007, the Living Wage Campaign brought together concerned students, staff and academics to campaign for a London Living Wage. London Citizens, the city-wide group that campaigns for a Living Wage, helped the LSE campaign at the start despite their other paid commitments, providing support and training to LSE campaigners. The LSESU then affiliated with London Citizens, which meant they could provide even more help to LSE’s Living Wage movement.

 

The Living Wage Campaign set up a society – LSESU Citizens for Social Justice – to continue the struggle in the 2006/7 academic year. After petitions, meetings with the school and numerous demonstrations outside LSE Council (the school’s highest decision-making body), the school finally committed to making sure that its contracted employees would paid a Living Wage by 2009.

 

But even though the campaign has succeeded, it is not over. LSE students who care about the people who clean their buildings and keep their environment pleasant – indeed, any students who care for their fellow human being’s rights – should join the campaign to constantly monitor the implementation of the Living Wage and the working conditions of LSE employees. Furthermore, the campaign will work on other areas of social justice, at LSE and across London.

 

Currently, the campaign is lobbying for a Living Wage Implementation Group, where productivity brain storming and environmental plans could be suggested and critiqued, and we could insure that each cleaner has a fair work load and that enough cleaners are being provided to complete work on time. This is currently not the case and many cleaners have to stay on unpaid to make sure their work is done.

 

To get involved with this imperative movement for social justice, contact Sam Causton (Chair, LSESU Citizens for Social Justice Society) on su.soc.citizensforsocialjustice@lse.ac.uk.

 

Links

 

London Citizens Living Wage Campaign –

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