Alex Laffer
@exLaffer
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A writer, editor and researcher with an interest in literary empathy and reading. He is currently overfilling his flat with books.
London, England
Joined October 2011
@AzizFndn @GoldsmithsUoL And yet they are making redundant the only British Muslim female academic who has been at @GoldsmithsUoL for 3yrs & is internationally recognised for her research with British Muslim women...
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Great piece co-written by precarious academics on marking boycott at @GoldsmithsUoL #saveourjobs and back our #3demands
theguardian.com
Precarious academics like me demand to keep our jobs and end casualisation, says the anonymous University of London lecturer
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Guardian article: My university plans to lose 500 casual staff – so I'm refusing to mark exams | Anonymous
theguardian.com
Precarious academics like me demand to keep our jobs and end casualisation, says the anonymous University of London lecturer
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"The uni isn’t even treating them as redundancies which is what they really are, because there is work to be done" Why time didn't allow for official dispute & power of subsequently "wildcat" marking boycott @CleanersFor @ucusolidarity
https://t.co/vMq69ZpAIa
ucubranchsolidaritynetwork.wordpress.com
For UCU HE Branches
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Parents on the picket, knowing whole families suffer. Peggy and KB, here in solidarity with AL Kika & asking @GoldsmithsUoL to #letusin the meeting room to be part of the solution: #3demands 1) extended contracts 2) clarity 3) negotiations #wearegoldsmiths
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Shocking that staff are picking up the bill for covid! Please support casualised Goldsmiths academics fighting mass layoffs #3demands #livedexperience #wearegoldsmiths #reclaimradicalgoldsmiths
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The third of our #3demands is in some ways the most important - we want real negotiation, not stonewalling and evasion. GUCU officers are in a meeting with @GoldsmithsUoL SMT now but casualised staff have only been invited to give our "lived experience". #LetUsIn
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Solidarity to the workers taking wildcat action & @CleanersFor at Goldsmiths today ✊ @GoldsmithsUoL are planning to lay off 472 casualised workers - 75% PoC - and refusing to negotiate directly with them at a vital meeting today. The college should meet their #3demands (1/4)
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The first of our #3demands - extend our contracts at least until October 31st! @GoldsmithsUCU is meeting @GoldsmithsUoL senior management later today - help amplify our demands by taking part in our virtual picket!
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Open letter @GoldsmithsUoL Communications team, in solidarity with our colleagues @CleanersFor @GoldsmithsUCU @GoldAntiRacism. Until clear demands are met by SMT @FCorner, we do not want our work used to obfuscate this struggle & the devastating effects of inequality #saveourjobs
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Faculty at the Department of Politics and International Relations stand in full solidarity with our associate lecturers and all precariously employed workers @GoldsmithsUoL who face being sacked by @FCorner / #SaveOurJobs #ReclaimRadicalGoldsmiths with @CleanersFor @GoldsmithsUCU
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Goldsmiths staff ‘at breaking point’ on job losses and racism claims @FCorner
@GoldsmithsUoL
https://t.co/CuUwswFaxZ via @timeshighered
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472 Fixed Term Contract/ Associate Lecturers & GraduatrTutors are to be sacked @GoldsmithsUoL @FCorner. We are our students' course designers, PhD supervisors, workshop leaders, welfare tutors & more. Please retweet our virtual picket! #saveourjobs
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I'm one of the BAME casualised teaching staff @GoldsmithsUoL is sacking this summer along with >400 others, @FCorner how do you think refusing to meet with boycotting staff/ @CleanersFor tallies with your commitment to anti-racism? #saveourjobs #toxicgoldsmiths
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@GoldsmithsUoL @FCorner stop making 472 staff redundant! approx 75% BAME staff, in the middle of a pandemic? Has management spoken to @GoldsmithsUCU or staff affected about alternatives to job cuts such as pay cuts for senior managers? #Saveourjobs #fundthefuture
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Why is @GoldsmithsUoL SMT refusing to meet with casualised staff about the 472 jobs that have been laid off? Is it coz they can't in good faith say they care about combatting racism when many of those sacked are BAME staff? We are all ears @FCorner
#saveourjobs @CleanersFor
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AN OPEN LETTER FROM STAFF IN THE ART DEPARTMENT AT GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON https://t.co/y4vJQVvqaP via @wordpressdotcom
@GoldsmithsUoL @FCorner
precariousatgold.wordpress.com
This letter was submitted to the Warden of Goldsmiths, Professor Frances Corner, on the 10th June 2020 in the face of proposed cuts to all fixed-term members of staff. The letter was written to pro…
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@GoldsmithsUoL @FCorner are making 472 casualised teaching staff redundant. A large proportion of workers being let go are BAME. Senior Management claim they are: 'passionate about advancing equality and celebrating diversity.' #performativewokeness
#saveourjobs
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