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Loads of my lecturerers are striking over pay at the moment. The strike has been extended because the employers made a clause that pay talks will only happen if industrial action is suspended. Lecturerers are peeved at this clause so they are extending the strike. This means staff will not be: Setting examinations Invigilating examinations Marking exam papers, essays, practical work or projects Providing informal guidance to students with regard to marks, grades or assessed progress Processing marks, including those resulting prior to the boycott Attending or participating in examiners’ meetings Covering for absent colleagues So.... to my point. As a member of the National Union Of Students, is it my responsibilty to support the lecturerers decisions with a "whatever it takes to get a better deal" attitude. Or do i go with my instinct- Fucking twats. I'm working hard, wanna graduate. They should attack the employers not the students. mmmm |
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Choose the first one, dude. |
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I've been on strike twice a year at least for the last decade (I work for local government), we're striking again on Tuesday over pensions, and you don't hear me complaining. Well actually you hear me complain plenty, just not on the internets. I'm no Union member, I don't do Masons. My boss makes me laugh, he can't be in the union cause his religion doesn't allow him to have a spokesperson. But it does mean he gets free donuts in heaven. I would like a banana dackery. |
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The worst student is a naive 'socialist' student. You can't free the trees, they're already free. |
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Care to expand Mr Murray? |
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just for reference. do what you think you should do. |
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Lecturers are a bunch of jokers. I plan to retire into "slackademia" in my 40s once I've paid off my mortgage. They always gripe about pay, but there's a very good reason they're paid considerably less than their counterparts in industry; Shorter hours, easier work, less stress, vastly more liberal workplace and a vastly superior pensions package, not to mention great perks like heavily subsidised canteens, free parking and in some universities, subsidised or even free housing. Seriously, I have lecturers who earn £35K a year, teach maybe 10 hours a week, mark papers and meet students for another 10 hours. In the rest of their time they do consultancy for ridiculous amounts of money and run their own companies which also salary themselves. You can also do pretty much what you like, cancel lectures at the drop of a hat, not turn up to meetings, treat your students like shit and still not get reprimanded. I know they're not all like that and there are some I really respect, but it seems some of them are in it as a professional slacker's club. Because of this, I have no sympathy for them and would urge you not to support them. As you say, its your education they're hurting, not their employers. |
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get to work lazy students |
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none of my lecturers went on strike, they didn't with the reasoning behind it. |
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What do they need more pay for? For buying pasties and crisps and like right hand drive autos with the boot full of galoshes? hahaha! oohh snap! |
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I think it's for leather patches to go on the elbows of their suede jackets. |
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haha! ZING! |
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