WarwickAntiCasualisation
@WarwickAntiCas
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We are WAC, the Anti-Casualisation Group at Warwick University. Active against casual and precarious employment of teaching staff since 2015. Views our own.
University of Warwick, UK
Joined October 2018
📢We are exhausted - but not ready to give up 📢 WAC is back, read our statement below ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #OneOfUsAllOfUs
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"I’m used to working way beyond a normal working week. We’re demanded to do too much free work: peer review, references, impact, media & more. Staff-student ratios aren’t good enough; the teaching workload is always high. There’s always more work & never more time or new hires."
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"The massive turnover of staff de-stabilises the lab. It results in a loss of knowledge. We have lost funding grants because we can’t guarantee to the funder that people’s skills will be retained, as their contracts are so short."
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"There’s instability in my lab team." "A huge amount of my time is spent on finding money to hire people. I could be spending that time teaching or researching. It’s a waste of money." "I’m constantly battling to extend my staff’s contracts"
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"People just disappear every year; there’s constant staff turnover." "The university doesn’t value staff retention enough to fight to keep us."
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"I’m constantly moving house. I have to make sure I don’t have too much furniture to move with me." "I’m always moving house" "I can’t plan the future of my life" "I have a bad quality of life. I am tired. The workload is crushing." "Long-term financial insecurity"
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"As an international PhD student, I needed to pay for my visa & the NHS, on top of international fees. I couldn’t have made it with no help from my family."
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"The timesheet cut off date for GTA pay in October is so early that we can’t claim hours in time. This means we don’t get paid in October and have to wait until November – that’s 7 weeks without pay." "I’m not paid to mark the weekly formative tasks that my students carry out."
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"I had to explain to my students that I am not paid during reading week so I would not be available for meetings or emails." "The seminar tutors in my department are always changing."
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On the #ucuRISING picket line on Thursday 24th November, WAC asked staff and visiting students the same question: How has casualisation affected you? Here are some of their responses:
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Today UCU members will be joined by CWU, Unite, Unison, NEU, Equity, RMT, NUS, Enough is Enough, and many others. We are bringing thousands to the streets on London. This is a movement. This is solidarity. This is how we win. Together, United. #ucuRISING
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This is my first year teaching without my part-time job, which I did for eleven years. I took a risk giving it up and I don’t regret it. I love working with our students, but I feel real anxiety over how long I can do so on a fixed-term contract. @WarwickAntiCas
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Further event on the 24th: 8-10am: Warwick Anti-Casualisation (@WarwickAntiCas) — Share Your Casualisation Stories
Thursday 24th Nov: picket from 8am-12pm (set up from 7:30) at bus loop. PEDAL FOR PENSIONS! Why not act green and cycle to campus? 10-10.30am: Jonathan Skinner, strike poetry reading 11am: Bronwen Mehta, “You have not yet been defeated: learning with Alaa Abd el-Fattah”
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Today is day 1 of #ucuRISING @ucu strikes! See you on the picket line đź‘‹ To kick start the day, we're asking you to share your stories about how casualisation has affected your life. (please RT)
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Last day to put your ballot in the post! 📮📮📮 Already posted yours? Remind a colleague! #OneOfUsAllOfUs
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Are your ballots hiding somewhere on your desk? Dig them out, and pop them in a postbox. Today is the last good day to post them – any later, and they're unlikely to arrive in time.
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