UNSW Casuals Network
@UNSWcasuals
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UNSW Casuals Network is a grassroots group of casualised, fixed-term, precarious, and unemployed workers at UNSW, fighting against exploitation and wage theft.
Joined May 2020
Today the UNSW Casuals Network has released a new report, showing a sharp rise in class sizes across the university. We found that between T2 2019 and T2 2020, tutorial sizes increased by an average of 13.8% https://t.co/2RMl6cDGaE
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Our regular meeting next Monday has a special guest - @a_kanjere from the @ANewNTEU campaign. Hear about her vision for the union and organising casuals. We'll also discuss enterprise bargaining and our plans for upcoming campaigns. Message for link and the full agenda.
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UNSW Casuals Network has just released an open letter in response to the conversion emails sent to casual workers - calling on casuals and supporters to sign and share! https://t.co/MvtbrUpsgD
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THERE’S NOTHING ‘CASUAL’ ABOUT BEING PRECARIOUSLY EMPLOYED AT UNSW: STOP CASUALISATION AND UNFAIR WORK PRACTICES To: Ian Jacobs, UNSW Vice Chancellor The majority of people employed by UNSW Sydney...
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farewell and good riddance, wage thief
President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ian Jacobs, has announced that he will step down after seven years in the role. In a difficult and emotional decision, Professor Jacobs is resigning so he and his wife Chris can support their parents in the UK. https://t.co/R3Cr6SthNx
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Forum tomorrow 7:30pm run by the Australian Student Environment Network (ASEN) - talking about fighting back against the cuts in universities.
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Causes event by ASEN (Australian Student Environment Network) on Tuesday, October 27 2020 with 141 people interested and 46 people going.
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Students at UNSW are wondering why there are police on their campus instigating violence and assaulting students? Speakout on Wednesday 1pm
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Causes event by UNSW Education Collective on Wednesday, October 28 2020
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we love our @CasualsUsyd comrades!
USyd Casuals Network comrades are out today at the @NTEUNational rally (which @nswpolice failed to prohibit) asserting our right to protest against education cuts and fee rises.
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students have been unstoppable in fighting back against job cuts and fee hikes! join the protest at UNSW tomorrow at 11am, for the Student National Day of Action: https://t.co/YEHQIMLFck
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We’re holding an open members forum next week where you’ll have a chance to speak, organise and fight. Come along, share what’s happening in your area & let’s push back against these attack together! #highered #stopthecuts
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Causes event by UTS Education Activist Network on Wednesday, October 7 2020
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This is tomorrow: UTS forum on the decimation of (what was left of) public education & jobs across the university. @UNSWcasuals representatives will share organising strategies and members will have a chance to share what's happening in their areas.
We’re holding an open members forum next week where you’ll have a chance to speak, organise and fight. Come along, share what’s happening in your area & let’s push back against these attack together! #highered #stopthecuts
https://t.co/mv8NxhdIJT
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Today at 4:30pm -- Forum on the UNSW cuts, mergers, and the broader fee hikes. Some great speakers including Kynan Tan from the UNSW Casuals Network. Talking about building towards more actions to fight for the rights of students and staff!
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Our report on class sizes featured on the front page of today's Sydney Morning Herald! If you missed it yesterday, you can read the report here: https://t.co/CL2idn06gH
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@georgiacarrsyd @UNSWcasuals The cap on our online classes is 40! But if there are just a few students over, then no new tutorials are created, and one of mine started with 45 students. The cap on on-campus tutorials varies from 25 to 30. I believe when I was an UG, in the late 90s, the cap was 20.
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With every change at universities I ask myself “have the students noticed?” When students are only around for a few years, it’s easier to get away with sweeping cuts and mass casualisation - but class size is pretty hard to ignore. Awesome work @UNSWcasuals
Today the UNSW Casuals Network has released a new report, showing a sharp rise in class sizes across the university. We found that between T2 2019 and T2 2020, tutorial sizes increased by an average of 13.8% https://t.co/2RMl6cDGaE
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This is quite an extraordinary (and damning) report. One class at UNSW saw an average tut enrolment increase of 614.5% from 27.5 to 169... This class size increase is occurring across unis. A class I taught last year at Sydney Uni for example has had a 260% class size increase
Today the UNSW Casuals Network has released a new report, showing a sharp rise in class sizes across the university. We found that between T2 2019 and T2 2020, tutorial sizes increased by an average of 13.8% https://t.co/2RMl6cDGaE
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Great work again by @UNSWcasuals! We need to resist this ongoing creep in class sizes. Accepting it as the new norm will not only lock out our casual colleagues from much of their regular work, but it will entrench our inflated workloads and diminish student experience.
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@CUPUWorkers @CasualsMonash @CasualsUsyd @LTUcasuals @CasualHigher @CovidSupportUoM @NHEANetwork @NTEUNSW [reposted as link above was broken!]
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For media inquiries, or to join the Network in fighting back against wage theft and job insecurity, get in touch at unswcasuals@gmail.com !
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Huge online classes are poor conditions for students to learn in, and they drive up workloads for teaching staff, who are expected to do more admin and student support work for the same pay.
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