Queen Mary casualised staff organising against casualization.
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Today, these critical #CoronaContract demands were delivered to QMUL Principal, cc: senior mgmt, SU, council, senate, & @DrJoGrady. Staff need urgent support and security - not whispers about who is being given their modules whilst they face redundancy amid a global pandemic!
Yesterday QMUCU passed its Emergency #CoronaContract Motion. Read the text here and join us in our efforts to protect the rights of casualised staff at QM! qmucu.org/2020/05/01/qmucu-p…
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#coronacontract UCU hustings tonight - details below.
⚠️ We are holding an interactive #CoronaContract hustings for UCU election candidates this coming Monday 5pm (link to follow👇). If you have serious questions for the candidates please turn up and ask. Or tweet questions at us. We need to know who will fight for precarious staff.
“If you are an employee and have been working for more than two years you are entitled not to be unfairly dismissed. This means the employer should be consulting if they are saying there is no work and seeking alternatives to dismissal.”
Useful @ucu document on your rights as a GTA. I found it useful and informative, I think this may be useful for anyone else doing a #PhD and teaching. @UM_UCU #phdlife
ucu.org.uk/media/11018/GTAs-…
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“With just weeks until the start of the new academic year, universities still are not coming clean about their plans and what they will mean for the tens of thousands of staff on insecure contracts and with an uncertain future.” Sign up to 10 pledges 2 support casualised comrades
Members of UCU are being urged to support their most vulnerable colleagues and put pressure on their universities as the union launches action to support casualised staff.
The union is urging its members to sign its 10 pledges.
#FundTheFuture
ucu.org.uk/article/10911/UCU…
Not. On!
An email sent to @NottmUniBschool PGRs- informing them that the 100% cut to their paid teaching work is a university-wide decision, and encouraging them to volunteer for unpaid work instead. But @UniofNottingham management have been assuring PGRs that neither are the case?
The expiry and non-renewal of a fixed-term contract is regarded in law as a dismissal.
If a contract isn’t renewed this is considered to be a dismissal, and if the employee has 2 years’ service the employer needs to show that there’s a ‘fair’ reason for not renewing the contract
“Somehow, the loss of casual and fixed term staff doesn’t elicit the same degree of pain – or precision, for that matter. Universities seem reluctant to disclose how many have already gone, let alone how many more are expected to go.”
As in Australia, so too in the UK 🙄🙄🙄
Coronavirus-induced workforce shedding has exposed the chasm in Australian university employment arrangements, says @JohnRoss49
timeshighereducation.com/opi…
UCU Anti-Cas event: protecting staff on casualised contracts, 28 July, register here fundthefuture.org.uk/event/p…
Audio recording of the training for permanent staff online here: coronacontract.org/permanent…
Corona contract training now underway! People from lots of different universities ready to build the campaign to reject the four fights offer! We need to keep the dispute a national issue and through solidarity we can win 🔥
#CoronaContract Permanent staff solidarity training meeting tomorrow night (July 7) - register here; coronacontract.org/permanent……
There’s still time to register for our Corona Contract training meeting on zoom tomorrow!
Join us at 6pm with guest speakers including @ShellyAsquith and @phaisie plus others from @labornotes!
Please share and come get involved ✊shorturl.at/doAPS
Solidarity with UCSC grad student TAs. Blacklisting your students, in the midst of a pandemic, for demanding a #COLA is not a good look!
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@qm_ucu is part of the largest post-16 trade union in the world - important to work with groups across the QM to ensure all are heard.
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T-minus 20 minutes to Student-Staff Assembly #WeAreQM
Just over an hour to go before our Student-Staff assembly. Please remember to register BEFORE 4 PM GMT (event start time) - a link to gain entrance will be sent in your confirmation email. Open to ALL members of the QMUL community #WeAreQM teapaw.org/qm_ucu/status/12717888…
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Just over an hour to go before our Student-Staff assembly. Please remember to register BEFORE 4 PM GMT (event start time) - a link to gain entrance will be sent in your confirmation email. Open to ALL members of the QMUL community #WeAreQM teapaw.org/qm_ucu/status/12717888…
QM Student-Staff Assembly is happening this Monday!
The meeting aims to bring the different campaigns at QM together to form a coalition
We will hear speakers from student societies, the SU, #QMFurloughNow and the trade unions on campus
Register here: ow.ly/6itl50A6Rw1
We're gearing up for today's Student-Staff Assembly @ 4pm GMT - a time for ALL members of the QMUL community to collectively demand a just response to the Covid-19 crisis #WeAreQM - Remember to register in advance here if you have not yet done so! teapaw.org/qm_ucu/status/12717888…
QM Student-Staff Assembly is happening this Monday!
The meeting aims to bring the different campaigns at QM together to form a coalition
We will hear speakers from student societies, the SU, #QMFurloughNow and the trade unions on campus
Register here: ow.ly/6itl50A6Rw1
@QMUL who have shamefully announced 20% cuts to budgets without showing financial evidence for why this is necessary.
We love this though-nt only are @qm_ucu + @QmacQm
organising to defend all jobs bt they're hosting a solidarity meeting with @QMSU!
qmucu.org/2020/06/05/student…
We support this QMSU open letter whole-heartedly. Structural racism harms both staff and students at QMUL, and the black community deserves to be both listened to and supported, not just now but always.
Students have come together, supported by the Executive Officers, to write an open letter to Queen Mary University of London Principal, Colin Bailey, and Vice-Principal for People, Culture & Inclusion, Sheila Gupta, about their disappointment over the university's...
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