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University targeted for exploiting outsourced staff

OUTSOURCED workers at the University of London have had to fight for years just to keep their jobs, a union leader told fellow strikers yesterday.

Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) president Henry Chango Lopez made a speech as a banner was unfurled outside the college’s Senate House, reading: “We exploit workers.”

Mr Chango Lopez, who works as a porter at the university, is leading a strike for better pay.

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