Sponsor a Lambeth College striker

Teaching staff at Lambeth College are on all-out strike action. The workers are fighting new contracts that attack pay and conditions and would create a two-tier workforce at the college. The changes include:

  • An increase in working hours, and a lower hourly rate of pay.
  • Reduced holiday.
  • An attack on sick pay entitlement for those on long term sick leave.

Unison union members at the college have taken two days of action alongside the UCU union and are planning further action, including 3 days next week. This is a local dispute but it is of national significance to workers in further education. If this package of terms and conditions are pushed through at Lambeth College they will be rolled out across the sector.

For £35 you can sponsor a Lambeth College striker.
Your sponsorship pack:
A sponsorship certificate
A photograph of your striker’s picket line, signed by a striker
A letter from your striker, updating you on the strike

You can sponsor a striker yourself, club together to sponsor a striker or sponsor a striker as a gift for a friend or relative.

Sponsorship form

Your name ___________________________________

Email/phone __________________________________

Union branch/organisation________________________________

Amount of sponsorship_________________________

Cheques payable to Lambeth UNISON – 6a Acre Lane, London SW2 5SG


2 comments

2 responses to “Sponsor a Lambeth College striker”

  1. Sergei says:

    Sponsor a striker?

    Apparently, the emancipation of the working class is no longer an act of the working class – it depends on sponsorship. Hmmm… this idea of sponsoring strikers seems wrong IMHO. Shouldn’t we be putting pressure on the union leaders to pay decent strike pay?

    • Simon Hardy says:

      Sergei, yes in principle you are right, but this is Unison we are talking about. By the time we managed to make any headway with them increasing their strike pay (currently only on £15 a day) then the strike would be over. This is literally an act of solidarity to support the strikers when they come out so they can sustain the action.

      As far as I can see Unison regionally are not interested in winning this dispute and won’t put any more into it than they already have done.


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