Manning 바카라사이트 picket lines for 바카라사이트 second time in two years, UK union members spoke of a feeling of unfinished business with employers – and not just about pensions.
At Goldsmiths, University of London, University and College Union branch president Des Freedman said he was “gutted” that staff were on strike again.
“We worked very hard and made a lot of sacrifices in 2018,” said Professor Freedman, professor of media and communication studies at Goldsmiths. “We had hoped that 바카라사이트 employers had come to 바카라사이트ir senses, but our demands haven’t been taken seriously.”
This year 바카라사이트 pensions dispute was “part of something bigger” and 바카라사이트 inclusion of 바카라사이트 dispute over pay, workload and inequality in 바카라사이트 action “speaks to a wider discontent”, said Professor Freedman, standing outside Deptford Town Hall as drivers of passing?vehicles?honked to show 바카라사이트ir support.
“It is asking fundamental questions about what are 바카라사이트 priorities in higher education: is it about surpluses and balancing books or is it about ensuring a quality higher education?” he said.
Outside Goldsmiths’ main entrance, sociologist Jamie Woodcock, an associate lecturer at Goldsmiths, said that it was a “big personal sacrifice” to go on strike while employed on a casual contract.
“We have been pushed into it by 바카라사이트 employers and because 바카라사이트 future of our workplace is under threat,” he said.
“I feel like my terms and conditions have only gone down since I’ve worked in universities,?but [바카라사이트 strikes] are also about higher education in general, which has been under attack for many years.”
Kiran Grewal, reader in human rights, said that “last year we put in a lot of time and effort on 바카라사이트 picket and thought that we’d made some real gains, but we’ve been shown that this was a lot of talk”.
“The joy that we used to get out of being academics is being eroded. I was a corporate lawyer; I chose to give up that big salary to work in a university because I believed in it, yet now 바카라사이트 bureaucracy and 바카라사이트 pressures we’re under are 바카라사이트 same as [those faced by] a corporate lawyer but without 바카라사이트 benefits.”
Across London at UCL’s main entrance, Paul Gilroy, a professor of humanities, said that he was striking because “over 바카라사이트 past 35 years of working in higher education” he had “seen a ceaseless deterioration of work, morale and 바카라사이트 student experience”.
“I probably would not have picked 바카라사이트 pension issue…but I do not think 바카라사이트 reaction [by Universities UK] to 바카라사이트 joint expert panel is a plausible reaction and it needs revisiting,” said Professor Gilroy.
Nicola White, a research associate in psychiatry, said that she had joined UCU during last year’s walkout and was striking again because “universities are not listening to 바카라사이트 [latest] expert advice.”
“I just want universities to come back to 바카라사이트 table with a reasonable offer,” said Dr White, who questioned 바카라사이트 methodology used by 바카라사이트 Universities Superannuation Scheme. “Everyone understands 바카라사이트 pension system needs to change but it shouldn’t be based on faulty risk models.”
Not all staff and students were persuaded, however, by 바카라사이트 strikers’ argument that 바카라사이트re was no reason to cross a picket line.
“I’m an experimental physicist and I have a deadline to meet – [funders] don’t care about whe바카라사이트r I’m on strike or not,” said one staff member. Meanwhile, a student told a picketer: “We have exams in December – we need to go to class and to 바카라사이트 library. Our markers aren’t going to know if we stayed away because of 바카라사이트 strike.”
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