Thread by @DrJoGrady

I NEED EVERY SINGLE UCU MEMBER TO RT THIS THREAD

Tomorrow we have our say.

Here are some reasons to take strike action.

Add your own thoughts in the replies and we will share them!

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We love the job - UCU members don’t come into the education sector for money. We do it because we want to make a difference. At the moment we are seeing the job we love destroyed.

This is our last chance to make a stand.

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Insecurity - we cannot and will not accept seeing colleagues on short term contracts anymore. A sector with billions of pounds of assets, paying vice chancellors millions can afford proper working conditions.

We are striking to force change.

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Pay - £44.5 million for vice chancellors and a 25% real terms pay cut for us? No. Not a step further.

Members are sick and tired of working 24/7 and not knowing if they have enough money to cover the basics in life.

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Pensions - we were right. They didn’t need to cut them. But they did. And they aren’t reinstating our money without a fight.

They took it off us. We have to take it back off them.

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Workload - every evening. Every weekend. It’s too much. Our members deserve a life outside of the job. Tomorrow they go to the picket lines to say a job should be part of life, not all of life.

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Students - I have said it before and I’ll say it again - staff working conditions are student learning conditions. We strike tomorrow for every single person connected with higher education.

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Beating the bullies - across the country our members are being threatened with vindictive and immoral pay deductions for daring to stand up to management.

The only way to deal with a bully is to stand up to them - tomorrow we do just that.

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I’ll finish by saying this. There are few guarantees in life. I cannot guarantee being on the picket line for the next three days will deliver us immediate victory. But I can guarantee going to work will see us lose.

Use every waking moment to build the picket.

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