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Jeremy Corbyn slammed job cuts at the University of Liverpool during a protest today.
The former Labour leader was speaking at a protest organised by the University and College Union (UCU) as part of their campaign against compulsory redundancies.
Two people in the Health and Life Sciences faculty are due to lose their jobs as part of a shake-up the university says is intended to allow investment in tackling extreme health inequality in the region.
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The number of job losses was originally 47 before negotiations, strikes, a marking boycott and protests by staff and students knocked that down. The union is currently on day five of a 10-day strike.
Jeremy Corbyn spoke to the crowd filling University Square outside the building housing university managerial staff. Many attending were there specifically to see him.
He said: "In winning this campaign to defend those jobs you will stop a university going after the cleaners, the catering workers, the contractors and all the other workers in the university. You're showing solidarity with all of them.
"You will also be giving a message to the university and further education sector all across the country that where the Tory government, as it were, as it is, comes after working class jobs and living standards with a new face of austerity, we're here, we're ready and we are fighting back."
The University of Liverpool is the largest employer in Riverside constituency, whose MP Kim Johnson spoke at the rally.
She was joined by Ian Byrne MP, whose law graduate daughter was affected by delayed grades due to the marking boycott.
Guild of Students deputy president Chloe Field, UCU general secretary Jo Grady, and Merseyside BLM founder Chantelle Lunt also spoke alongside students at the university.
Council cabinet member for education, Tom Logan, was also in attendance.
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