OUTSOURCING workers constitutes “institutional racism,” a union warned today as it headed to court to fight for fair pay for black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) and migrant workers.

United Voices of the World (UVW) submitted the claim at an employment tribunal on behalf of security guards at St George’s University of London outsourced by contractor Bidvest Noonan. 

The union is arguing that outsourcing them on inferior pay rates and terms and conditions to staff employed directly by the university breaches their rights under the Equality Act.