Thread by @ucu

🚨BREAKING: UCEA, the group representing uni bosses, has confirmed it is doubling down on real-terms pay cuts, refusing to even acknowledge casualisation & offering vague gestures on inequality & workload.

They are refusing to seriously negotiate.

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UCEA's chief exec has written to our general secretary @DrJoGrady. In it, he lays out the employers' 'offer'

📉 Yet another real-terms pay cut, insultingly packaged as a "pay uplift"

❌Lip-service to pay gaps and spiralling workload

❗️Not a single mention of casualisation

Not only are employers refusing to budge from this insulting 'offer' of cuts & tinkering, it's all they are willing to talk about.

We cannot negotiate with preconditions set by employers.

They need to get round the table, drop their insults, & start treating staff with respect.

1/3 of all academic staff, 75,000 people, are on precarious contracts.

66,000 are on 'atypical contracts'.

This scale of exploitation shames the sector, and denies our members secure livelihoods.

Yet employers don't think casualisation is even worth discussing.

We face a workload crisis. So many of our members work long into every evening & throughout the weekends, often unpaid.

72% say this has negatively affected their physical & mental health.

Employers are happy to discuss health issues, but don't mention reducing working time.

There's only one way to force employers to listen:

Vote YES to strike action

Vote YES to action short of a strike

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