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SECURITY guards have launched a landmark legal challenge against a university over a claim of racist outsourcing.
The guards at St George’s University of London are challenging alleged racist outsourcing at an employment tribunal hearing next week.
The outsourced workers claim that they are the victims of race discrimination because they are on worse terms and conditions than their majority white in-house colleagues.
United Voices of the World, the union representing the security guards, say St George’s maintains a two-tier system of pay and conditions, which sees their members get less sick pay and annual leave, much lower pension contributions and no extra pay for working unsociable hours.
UVW member Cetin Avsar said: “All we want is to be treated fairly. We don’t want anything that we don’t deserve.
“When you look at St George’s Hospital, it’s ethnic minorities, black and brown workers who are disadvantaged in this situation, and this leads us to believe that this institution is racist.“
UVW won a similar watershed case against Royal Parks last November when a tribunal found their inferior pay amounted to indirect race discrimination.
The hearing against St George’s is listed from March 14 to 17.
