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1. Don't restructure our Refectory 
The management of Chartwells, the company who run the catering services in UCL, have told staff that up to half of them will have their contracts changed from 52 to 40 weeks’ pay per year.
This will include around half of the Refectory closing down across the summer months, adversely affecting those of us who study and work beyond October to May. Is this all that a university café and restaurant should provide to the students?
After forcing UCL to agree in September 2010 to give subcontracted staff the living wage, Chartwells is finally about to start paying the £7.85 per hour necessary to survive in London to the Refectory staff – but by June, long after staff will have had their contracts torn up and their working conditions attacked, and two months later than previously confirmed. This does not suffice.
What kind of Living Wage is this? An 8% rise on the headline wage rate on top of a 25% cut of annual pay. Will this help the families of workers on our own campus make ends meet?
2. Petition to H&M to stock fairtrade garments
We congratulate H&M for stocking garments made with organic cotton and for their work with UNICEF and the Better Cotton Initiative, but want them to start stocking fairtrade clothes.