#Casualisation

Today is #UCUStrikesBack anti-casualisation day. My last dept was heavily dependent on casual labour (as hourly paid tutors or part-time teaching fellows) because the staff-student ratio was what can only

A thread: Postdocs need to get rid of their cut-off dates (i.e., 'PhD must be submitted no longer than 2 years before application', etc). This is not a democratic process

Dr. Virginia L. Campbell

Thread. Tomorrow begins the #UCUStrike. I have so so many thoughts and feelings about this. @bigfridge224 has a thread about the difficulties of precarity, and @KatExe about the impact this

Claire Marris is exhausted

If you are:1) a student UK University upset that your teachers are on #UCUstrike; or2) a parent of a uni student angry about uni staff being on strike; or3) a

Alison Atkinson-Phillip is on strike

Today @NewcastleUniUCU #UCUStrikesBack is focussing on the fight against casualisation. My @NuAntiCas colleagues have been doing an awesome job sharing stories of the impact of casualisation so please check them

prof jenny pickerill

I have been relatively quiet about the #UCUStrikesBack on twitter because, as a HoD I was asked by my Uni to be careful about what I say on social media,

BREAKING: Sydney University has become the latest elite university to admit to underpayment of casual staff with about 8.8 million dollars to be repaid. The ABC has seen emails from

Today the Bristol UCU twitter is being ‘taken over’ by a group of fixed-term contract staff to highlight how coronavirus is affecting our job security and employment prospects. #FTCs #CoronaContract

Drustan de Búrca

An actual proper strategy academics could adopt to resist marketisation, casualisation, and precarity is a total boycott of grant applications. It would end both the worth of work AND permanent

@OxfordUCU is on strike starting today. As a teaching assistant @ODID_QEH I'm on strike too.Impressive gathering on the picket line and rally on day 1 of this 8-day strike action

Leeds Anticasualisation

#PrecarityStory day 2 thread @ucu @UCUAnti_Cas Part 1 today... #UCUstrike #UCUStrikesBack 1/ As an early career researcher from a ‘non-traditional’ HE background, the first in my family to go to

Today I heard of a Head of School not going out on #UCUstrikesback because "it wouldn't be fair on the staff, especially the School admins". This is getting it all

. @TAFEeducation My story:Came from a single parent household.Finish Yr 10 and went to TAFE to become a stenographer.Got a job on finishing. Discovered I really didn't like being a

Prof Fiona de Londras

Most mornings this week I've been w colleagues on #UCUstrikes picket lines. I'm proud that many @bhamlaw profs & readers have also been there. We are not leaving it to

Dr Kay Guccione

When I started being a Researcher Developer in 2010 my role involved organising training for postdocs (the visible 30%) and also advocating for postdocs (obscured work, but ~70% of my

So the vote on the JPF is called off. @NTEUNational point out the lack of goodwill from university VCs undid the deal. But the numerous votes of no confidence in