So, not satisfied that their students have had to deal with over a year of interrupted learning, these staff have decided to wait until the first real opportunity the students have to catch up, and are now sabotaging it?
Could’ve chosen to strike at any point over the last year and a half to make their point, but no… They intentionally aimed for the one time that would do the maximum possible harm to the people they’re supposed to be educating.
I feel for the academics as someone who also works at a Uni, though as an administrator.
But final salary pensions are just not a thing that’s gonna happen ever again.
Also they run the risk of the Uni doing what it did to my section, in that it’s spun off as a seperate company that gift-aids all its profilts back to the uni. Suddently all their statements about paying a living wage and staff benefits no longer apply because you’re technically not working for the uni anymore.
The working conditions clearny need to improve though. If they are taking “nearly strike action” which is described as “working their contracted hours and duties and not volunteering to do more” then bugger me, I’m nearly striking every day. Working your contracted hours and duties is not nearly striking, it’s doing your damn job.
If you consistantly need me to work more than my contracted hours then you change my contract to reflect that. If I need to perform duties that are not on my contract then you change my contract to reflect that. If you as a business cannot afford to pay staff for the roles you need them to do then your entire business model is flawed and the business needs to die. That’s just the ecnomic system we live in. Supposedly.
I work at a Uni, don’t actually pay into the pension scheme though, but do support what they’re doing.
The pension issue is criminally negligent by the sounds of it and badly managed to the point it almost looks like embezzlement.
The increased payments they are suggesting amounts to a massive pay cut
Strike? Sounds a bit like blocking essential infrastructure to me, good thing Ms Patel has fixed that.
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So, not satisfied that their students have had to deal with over a year of interrupted learning, these staff have decided to wait until the first real opportunity the students have to catch up, and are now sabotaging it?
Could’ve chosen to strike at any point over the last year and a half to make their point, but no… They intentionally aimed for the one time that would do the maximum possible harm to the people they’re supposed to be educating.
I feel for the academics as someone who also works at a Uni, though as an administrator.
But final salary pensions are just not a thing that’s gonna happen ever again.
Also they run the risk of the Uni doing what it did to my section, in that it’s spun off as a seperate company that gift-aids all its profilts back to the uni. Suddently all their statements about paying a living wage and staff benefits no longer apply because you’re technically not working for the uni anymore.
The working conditions clearny need to improve though. If they are taking “nearly strike action” which is described as “working their contracted hours and duties and not volunteering to do more” then bugger me, I’m nearly striking every day. Working your contracted hours and duties is not nearly striking, it’s doing your damn job.
If you consistantly need me to work more than my contracted hours then you change my contract to reflect that. If I need to perform duties that are not on my contract then you change my contract to reflect that. If you as a business cannot afford to pay staff for the roles you need them to do then your entire business model is flawed and the business needs to die. That’s just the ecnomic system we live in. Supposedly.
I work at a Uni, don’t actually pay into the pension scheme though, but do support what they’re doing.
The pension issue is criminally negligent by the sounds of it and badly managed to the point it almost looks like embezzlement.
The increased payments they are suggesting amounts to a massive pay cut
Strike? Sounds a bit like blocking essential infrastructure to me, good thing Ms Patel has fixed that.
Off to jail you all go.