Solidarity with all university staff striking over pay, pensions, equality and decent working conditions. I'm still recovering from illness but will join the picket at Queen Mary tomorrow @qmul_ucu @QMUL tomorrow #ucustrike #UCUStrikesBack
@qmul_ucu @QMUL 'The pay gap between BAME women and white men at QMUL was 31% in 2019. 9% of all academic staff are on “temporary or ‘atypical’ contracts”... with no job security.' qmucu.org/2019/11/20/why… #UCUstrike #UCUStrikesBack
@qmul_ucu @QMUL At QMUL BAME staff are paid 22% less than white staff & women 14% less than men. When teaching & support staff face job insecurity, discrimination & low pay they can't provide the best teaching. Without decent working conditions, you fail staff & you fail students #UCUStrikesBack
@qmul_ucu @QMUL This kind of inequality is one of the reasons I'm so excited about today's Race and Faith Manifesto – policies that will end the national crisis of under-representation of Black and Asian Teachers and Professors.
#RealChange #LabourManifesto
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@qmul_ucu @QMUL We will:
✅Extend pay gap reporting to BAME groups
✅Address name-based discrimination
✅Establish a Race Equality unit in the Treasury to review all major spending announcements
✅Commit our National Investment Bank to address discrimination in access to finance
#RealChange
@qmul_ucu @QMUL The manifesto also promises to: 'Review the curriculum to ensure that it enriches students and covers subjects such as racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, xenophobia and black history and continues to teach issues like the Holocaust.'
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@qmul_ucu @QMUL I'm proud to see this in the manifesto and Labour’s commitment to raising awareness and education is something I take incredibly seriously and personally. I wholeheartedly support this. #RealChange
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