UCU Glasgow

If you are affected by or concerned about casualisation, come along to the UCU Glasgow Report Launch: The Realities of Casualisation at the University of Glasgow. The report not only outlines the detrimental effect of casualisation but also sets a list of proposals for change.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/14/market-universities-crisis-staff-strike

Come along to our Report Launch: The Realities of Casualisation at the University of Glasgow.

Refreshments will be provided, and we will hear from casualised staff and how they will fight to stamp out casual contracts.

Everyone welcome.

The University of Glasgow UCU Branch Committee is shocked and horrified at news that SOAS management has unilaterally decided to cut the fractional staff budget and suspended institutionally-funded research leave starting in 2020-2021.

We are concerned about the effects on the livelihoods and well-being of all staff, especially female and BAME workers who are disproportionately affected by casualisation. No member of staff should be made to pay for the bad decisions of management.

What we are seeing at SOAS is the result of the market-driven transformation of higher education across the UK. Pay and conditions are deteriorating even as the sector as a whole has a £1 billion surplus. Inevitably, students and other beneficiaries of higher education will suffer too.

Education should be a public good and staff should be treated with the respect that they deserve. We stand in solidarity with SOAS UCU and staff and wish them well in their struggle against this injustice.

Thanks very much to our comrades from the Unite Glasgow University Branch for their solidarity ✊

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📣WHY SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT THIS STRIKE?📣

From Nov 25th to Dec 4th, lecturers and other academic staff will be striking to protect their pension security from being slashed. But they are also fighting for greater work security, equal and better pay, and against mandatory, unpaid workloads.

Our university is increasingly being run as a corporation, with the sole purpose of producing a higher profit margin. Both students and staff are now experiencing the consequences of this process.

Come along this Wednesday if you wanna find out how to help make sure students are organised to fight alongside our striking lecturers against the marketisation of UK universities - let's go call out some scabs ✊👊✊

Link to fb event: https://www.facebook.com/events/413486272660359/

UCU announces eight days of strikes starting this month at 60 universities Sixty UK universities* will be hit with eight days of strike action from Monday 25 November to Wednesday 4 December, UCU announced today.

On 12th November, UCU Scotland Caseworker David is coming to campus to offer 6 casework sessions.

If you have a workplace issue you would like some advice on, sign up to your slot here: https://forms.gle/GyxkwjxRFUFxEKEg6

Any questions, please email us at [email protected].

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