LSE UCU Solidarity with Capital City College and London Metropolitan UCU
The LSE UCU is sending £200 in support of strikes across Capital City College (CCC) in London, and stands in solidarity against strikes with colleagues at London Metropolitan University.
Capital City College Strikes
CCC is one of the 30 FE branches on strike as part of the nationally coordinated action over pay, workloads and national binding bargaining. They have already taken 2 days of strike action in December, due to particularly bad local issues, and are out again on strike at The Kings Cross Centre campus on Grays Inn Road.
The branch is requesting statements of support and solidarity.
The committee has already sent to £200 each in support of strikes in Leicester and Sheffield, following LSE UCU members’ vote at the 30 October 2025 branch meeting to support such requests.
London Metropolitan Mass Redundancies
London Metropolitan University management announced 110 proposed academic redundancies this week, or 1/5th of their total staff, in a major attack on jobs, students, and working-class education.
London Met was founded to educate those excluded elsewhere: working-class students, mature learners, migrants, carers, disabled students, and first-generation students. Cutting 110 academic posts is not “restructuring” — it is the systematic dismantling of a public, inclusive university.
These proposals will mean larger classes, reduced student support, loss of access routes, and the erosion of disciplines that serve London’s communities. If this can happen here, it can happen anywhere.
Messages of support can be sent to ucu@londonmet.ac.uk
Higher Education Crisis Continues
Strikes continue across the sector as UK higher education dips into an increasing mass redundancy crisis.
