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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Kevin Rawlinson

Up to 40 security guards at UCL could lose jobs under restructuring

UCL building
The Independent Workers of Great Britain union said UCL ‘should be ashamed of their treatment of outsourced staff’. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

Dozens of security guards at one of the UK’s most prestigious universities face losing their jobs, while many more are likely to see pay cuts of as much as £13,500 a year during the cost of living crisis, their representatives have said.

In the latest episode in the long-running fight by outsourced workers at University College London (UCL), the staff have been told that, with the risk of redundancy hanging over them, the roughly 260 existing workers would be expected to compete for around 220 remaining jobs, or leave.

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