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LEADING London university UCL was named and shamed yesterday for failing to take action tostop “modern-day slavery” conditions at its international campus in Qatar.
UCL is under pressure to act on human rights violations at Doha’s Education City uncovered by an International Trades Union Congress (ITUC) probe.
The ITUC raised the conditions with bosses of UCL and seven other global universities that operate at the campus in a private letter.
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
Almost half of universities face deficits, merger mania is taking hold, and massive fee hikes that will lock out working-class students are on the horizon, write RUBEN BRETT, PAUL WHITEHOUSE and DAN GRACE