More stress and pressure thrown at exhausted and overworked HE workers
UWE Bristol has announced 100 voluntary redundancies. They’ve also issued a section 188 notice for compulsory redundancies in due course. Nightmare situation.
Already overworked underpaid staff are offered 1.5 wks pay per yr of employment. VC on apprx £370k and recent restructuring has increased £100k+ management notably.
The uncertainty for us, as staff, and our students is unbearable
@academicchatter Another result of the antidemocratic shenanigans by #UCU leadership: waiting until after the pensions 'victory' to reballot members meant that there was far less incentive for securely employed academics in pre-'92 institutions to return their ballots (for many such colleagues, the primary concern was #pensions).
Once again throwing the post-92, junior & precarious colleagues who are the most engaged union members under the bus.
Sir, – We write as academics and scholars in or from Ireland. The scale and severity of Israel’s current war on the Gaza Strip has exceeded all previous levels of violence in the prolonged and brutal Israeli occupation of Palestine.
It is a campaign of ethnic cleansing and, according to many experts, genocidal violence....
UCU has written to UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) calling on it to reverse its decision to suspend its advisory board on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion within 48 hours.
If it refuses to do so, the union will call on its members to resign from voluntary positions with the funding body.
As my employer does not recognise UCU and #EIS does not have a strike mandate under the current restrictive anti-labour policies of the UK government, I am working today, but with you in spirit.
Why are academics and other university professionals across the #UK on strike?
Pay has fallen in real terms over the past decades, there are gross gaps with respect to racial and gender equality in pay across the sector, the sector relies on casualised labor far too much (and also outsourcing instruction), and workloads are unsustainable.