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Claire Marris Profile picture
Claire Marris
@claire_marris
STS academic and trade union activist | @UCUCommons, @in4commons | she/they
Apr 26, 2020 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
I learned something today that has made me so angry that I am coming out of my Twitter holiday to share it. #NECcoup The #UCU faction that lost March's UCU National Executive Committee elections are organising an #NECcoup so that they can keep their control of #UCU's most powerful committees, and are using the #covid19 pandemic to justify it.
Nov 29, 2019 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
If you are:
1) a student UK University upset that your teachers are on #UCUstrike; or
2) a parent of a uni student angry about uni staff being on strike; or
3) a senior member of staff who is able to strike but has chosen not to:
Pls check out #PrecarityStory & #Precaritystories ...and consider some of these figures:

one third of all academics working in academia
are employed on fixed-term contracts

30% UK Higher Education institutions use zero hour contracts to employ academic staff