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Good morning comrades! Today we are looking at the issues facing Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) students and staff.
Casualisation, both at the University of Edinburgh and beyond, disproportionately affects BAME staff.
https://www.ed.ac.uk/files/atoms/files/edmarc_staff_report_2019_final.pdf
https://www.ed.ac.uk/files/atoms/files/edmarc_staff_report_2019_final.pdf
For academic staff, non-UK nationality BAME staff are most likely to be employed on a fixed-term contract and White UK staff the least likely, a pattern has not changed significantly over the last six years.
For professional services staff, non-UK BAME staff overall are more likely to be on a fixed-term contract than their UK counterparts over the last six years, with BAME staff being more likely to be on fixed-term contracts than their white counterparts for both UK and non-UK staff
Here are some not good and not cute graphics
On top of the ongoing precarity that this represents for BAME staff, it also shows that they are more likely to be vulnerable to cuts carried out under COVID-19.
As we noted yesterday, the institutional and systemic effects of the hostile environment are significantly aggravated for BAME staff and students https://twitter.com/PanPrecariat/status/1263437478737989633
The systemic and institutional racism faced by BAME staff goes beyond the university and makes them more vulnerable to the effects of COVID-19.
While black and minority ethnic people make up only 14% of the UK’s population, they account for 35% of all coronavirus patients in intensive care https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/16/inquiry-disproportionate-impact-coronavirus-bame
"health is intimately tied to economic wellbeing. It cannot be divorced from other considerations. We know that, in general, the poor die younger." An ongoing history of racism has material consequences for BAME communities https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/07/the-guardian-view-on-bame-death-rates-inequality-and-injustice
Please also take a look at the thread by @PandemicPGRs https://twitter.com/PandemicPGRs/status/1263801511961931777
The race pay gap at @EdinburghUni is 27%. There are no concrete material plans to address this.
This does and will continue to have an effect on BAME staff at Edinburgh.
Please joing @ucuedinburgh and get involved in the BAME working group
For international BAME students: https://twitter.com/PanPrecariat/status/1263442455891972097
For UK BAME students and workers: https://twitter.com/PanPrecariat/status/1263442458005962757
And please sign our petition to stop some of these disastrous decisions: https://www.change.org/pandemic-precariat
