IWGB University of London

08/05/2026

Cleaners at the RCA have been reporting workplace abuse and sexual harassment for years.

After multiple formal grievances led nowhere, we organised a protest on campus to deliver a letter to RCA about the ongoing threat to their safety.

Instead of removing the supervisor accused of abusive behaviour by over 16 workers, the RCA subcontractor sacked two of those who tried to deliver a letter, and issued two others with final warnings.

This is victimisation. Black and white.

We need RCA students, teachers, technicians and outsourced workers to come together as a campus and stand behind these fired workers:

Join protest on the 14th of May to demand the RCA lives up to its values, by reinstating the fired workers and protecting us from further abuse and harassment.
Donate to the hardship fund for cleaners who have lost their income.

Do you know any students, staff or alumni at the RCA? Tell them about what’s happening. Encourage them to get involved. Come together to the protest on the 14th.

17/04/2026

IWGB GOES TO THE NATIONAL HOUSING DEMONSTRATION

✊National Housing Demonstration
📍 Soho Square Gardens, London W1D 3QP
🗓 Saturday 18th April
⏰ 12PM for a 1PM set off

The National Housing Demonstration is set to be the biggest housing march in years and the IWGB will be a part of it. Join our bloc as we take to the streets for the biggest show out of renter power in years to demand rent controls, more public housing and end to gentrification that displaces communities.

What is the point of a hard-won pay rise that just goes back into a landlord's pockets?

Alone we cannot fight property developers and landlords but if we come together to make our voices heard, we can create a fair housing system, which works for everyone, not just the few.

Spearheaded by the London Renters Union and backed by more than 80 organisations, it is calling for both rent controls and more public housing via their Cut The Rent campaign.

Together we are stronger!

10/04/2026

🚨 Stand with RCA cleaners facing victimisation for speaking out about harassment 🚨

📣 Protest: Tuesday 14th April, 1pm 📣
📍 RCA Battersea, SW11 4AY

After years of harassment at work, countless attempts to raise grievances with management, RCA still refuse to ensure safe working conditions for cleaners at the world's #1 school for art and design.

Show your SOLIDARITY with these workers at the protest on 14th April - what is happening today at RCA could happen anywhere tomorrow. We fight to end harassment at work everywhere!

Check the link in our bio for more online actions to support this campaign

23/03/2026

💥 STAND WITH RCA CLEANERS ✉️ WRITE TO RCA USING THE TOOL IN OUR BIO

Listen to explain how continue to ignore ongoing harassment against cleaners, and instead are trying to victimise cleaners for breaking the silence on the abuse they have been facing for years.

In this video, we go into the breakdown of how cleaners have repeatedly tried to raise the issue to RCA and their outsourcing company, PfP, but have been repeatedly denied a formal process. PfP are shamefully blocking a fair process and refusing to take into account evidence presented to them.

Whilst RCA insist on having strengthened their policies around harassment, these are not being applied to outsourced workers, the majority of whom are migrant women. Outsourcing is a discriminatory practice that must end!

19/03/2026

🚨 WRITE TO THE RCA - LINK IN BIO 🚨

Cleaners at the RCA are being silenced and victimised for speaking out against sexual harassment. After enduring over 3 years of workplace bullying and harassment, cleaning staff took action and held a small, peaceful protest to hand in a formal grievance. Following this, PFP (the outsourcing company) have been victimising and targeting the cleaners with the support of the RCA. They have been told that by raising awareness of sexual harassment and exploitation, they are bringing disrepute to the company and the client.

This is unacceptable and we need your help to let the RCA know that this cannot continue ‼️📢

Write to the Vice Chancellor Christoph Linder to demand the university takes action and stops covering up abuse!

24/01/2026

Join us for Bread and Roses, the second Film for Workers event at the Rio Cinema this Sunday 25th January at 3.30pm.
The 2000 Ken Loach is being shown in collaboration with the IWGB as part of the cinema’s series highlighting the trade union movement.

The film will feature Spanish subtitles and be followed by a panel with our General Secretary Henry Chango-Lopez and members of the IWGB cleaners branch.

Book tickets here: https://riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/WhatsOn?f=1986355

IWGB Private Hire Drivers branch scarves will also be for sale at the screening! Prices start from £15.

Films For Workers is a part of a low-cost cinema for trade union members running in January and February, honouring the trade union movement and showcasing the reality of labour on-screen. In addition, it hopes to create an audience discussion about their own experiences in the workplace.

26/12/2025

05/12/2025

13/11/2025

🚨 PROTEST ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨

Stand in solidarity with the fired Rockstar employees and demand their reinstatement.

Join us in London on Friday morning at 8am, or in Edinburgh on Tuesday afternoon from 5pm for a march on Holyrood.

See you there! 🪧🔥💥
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🚨 ANUNCIO DE PROTESTA 🚨

Ven a demostrar solidaridad con los trabajadorxs despedidos de Rockstar y exijir su reincorporación inmediata

Únete a nosotrxs en Londres el viernes por la mañana a las 8am o en Edimburgo el martes por la tarde a partir de las 5pm para una marcha en Holyrood.

¡Nos vemos allí! 🪧🔥💥