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“I would ask, what else can members do? … We are facing a situation where we literally cannot afford to stay in the jobs. What type of university is it going to be? Is it all going to be casual contracts? Are we all going to be still underpaid? Are women and disabled members going to be paid
EMILY SINCLAIR (SHE/ HER) much less than males? What kind of future do we want? We agree the sector is underfunded. What we disagree with is that our members should take the brunt of that through paying conditions. I’d ask our Vice Chancellor and I ask him directly regularly ‘what
are you doing?’ ‘Who are you talking to?’ ‘Why are you not turning your frustration towards the people who are making our institution unviable?’ ... Read our full interview with UCU Co-President Steven Spencer on page 5
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