How can you justify a £1 billion investment on facilities whilst not even paying your staff a living wage?
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Nicholas Byres
12 years ago
As a student rep, I will be making my fellow students aware of this matter. ***** Finally, I ask you to instruct the university’s Finance Directorate to divert the money the university saves when it deducts pay from employees who go on strike into a Student Hardship Fund. The campus trade union representatives requested that the university do this at the Trade Union Negotiating Group (TUNG) meeting on 10th February. In my opinion, as someone who cares passionately about students, this was a perfectly reasonable request – the University of Lancaster has already set up such a fund. However, I understand the proposal was met with something close to derision by the Director of Human Resources, who said the university’s senior management team would never agree to such a fund. I sincerely hope you will disagree and order the setting up of this hardship fund as soon as possible.*****
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Nicholas Byres
12 years ago
As a student rep, I will be making my fellow students aware of this matter. Finally, I ask you to instruct the university’s Finance Directorate to divert the money the university saves when it deducts pay from employees who go on strike into a Student Hardship Fund. The campus trade union representatives requested that the university do this at the Trade Union Negotiating Group (TUNG) meeting on 10th February. In my opinion, as someone who cares passionately about students, this was a perfectly reasonable request – the University of Lancaster has already set up such a fund. However, I understand the proposal was met with something close to derision by the Director of Human Resources, who said the university’s senior management team would never agree to such a fund. I sincerely hope you will disagree and order the setting up of this hardship fund as soon as possible.
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Emily Carp
12 years ago
If the marking boycott affects me, I kknow who I'll be holding responsible, and it's not those who felt the need to boycott.
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Robert Lee
12 years ago
pay should go up equally with inflation
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Maddy barber
12 years ago
No one should be earning 300k when people in the same institution, having an actual impact and relationship with students, are struggling to pay the mortgage. Your focus should be education not payment inequalities so make it write
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Suzanna Dickson
12 years ago
I want you to know that if my degree suffers as a result of the marking boycott I will be holding you and university management responsible, not the staff members undertaking the boycott.
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MICHAEL ASH
12 years ago
Why are the UCEA being controlled by goverment "quango's " when surely as our core business students pay fees exceeding£9k , surely this makes us part of the private sector?
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Paul Tipler
12 years ago
a cost of living pay rise is not a lot to ask for .
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Oscar de Bruijn
12 years ago
This week I found that my Council Tax has gone up by 2.2% and water rates by 4%. Why should I accept 1%?
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Adil
12 years ago
Currently, the system is appalling. It is only fair that this be sorted out in the proposed way for the sake of the staff and the students
Just as a bit of feedback, from a student perspective. I am receiving a lot of strike and UCU related e-mails. I am finding it increasingly frustrating to see that students are effectively being punished because of disputes between lecturers and their employers over pay.
As much as I would like to empathise with their situation, when their strike and boycott actions begin to impact students, then I have to draw a line and say that I feel it is outrageous. Added to this that we are effectively being emotionally blackmailed into supporting their issues, I struggle to feel any sympathy for their plight.
Students have suffered a great deal over the years with increasing fees, cost of living, no real increase to funding etc. It seems like a huge insult and rubbing salt into the wounds that their now £9,000 per annum courses are constantly being interrupted by strikes and boycotts. I think that this amounts to nothing more than emotionally blackmailing students into supporting their actions by saying ‘support us and sign a petition to stop this boycott or else your marks will be delayed’. That’s not acceptable. As a student who suffers from severe anxiety issues myself, the standard wait for results is long enough. Adding to it by boycotting the process is out of order.
Personally, if I had lectures, seminars and meetings cancelled, I’d want the proportional amount of my £9,000 back. I’d also seek legal advice if the delays in my marks exacerbated my illnesses. If my marks were delayed by a boycott and resulted in me missing out on a place or funding, then I would sue.
‘They feel they have been forced into taking this action because their employers have so far refused to enter into negotiations with them.’ – What a load of rubbish. They do have a choice and they’re choosing to put their own personal monetary gains above the education of people who have suffered a great deal of injustice already over the past few years and who ultimately contribute a fair amoun
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Anonymous
12 years ago
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I am signing, not because I want to, but because we are being emotionally blackmailed into signing. 'Support our petition or your marks will be late, we have no choice.' Choose not to punish students who have suffered enough themselves. I hope the pay rise is worth alienating students for.
Please use your influence to ensure that a marking boycott is avoided and that staff are not being paid less in real terms whilst the student fees (and therefore their expectations) go up
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Spencer Pearce
12 years ago
I am an honorary member of staff, now retired. Ἄξιος ὁ ἐργάτης τοῦ μισθοῦ αὐτοῦ. The labourer is worthy of his hire.
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Florian
12 years ago
Tuition fees are so high, why not pass some of that to the lecturing staff?
The Staff at this university deserve BETTER
How can you justify a £1 billion investment on facilities whilst not even paying your staff a living wage?
As a student rep, I will be making my fellow students aware of this matter. ***** Finally, I ask you to instruct the university’s Finance Directorate to divert the money the university saves when it deducts pay from employees who go on strike into a Student Hardship Fund. The campus trade union representatives requested that the university do this at the Trade Union Negotiating Group (TUNG) meeting on 10th February. In my opinion, as someone who cares passionately about students, this was a perfectly reasonable request – the University of Lancaster has already set up such a fund. However, I understand the proposal was met with something close to derision by the Director of Human Resources, who said the university’s senior management team would never agree to such a fund. I sincerely hope you will disagree and order the setting up of this hardship fund as soon as possible.*****
As a student rep, I will be making my fellow students aware of this matter. Finally, I ask you to instruct the university’s Finance Directorate to divert the money the university saves when it deducts pay from employees who go on strike into a Student Hardship Fund. The campus trade union representatives requested that the university do this at the Trade Union Negotiating Group (TUNG) meeting on 10th February. In my opinion, as someone who cares passionately about students, this was a perfectly reasonable request – the University of Lancaster has already set up such a fund. However, I understand the proposal was met with something close to derision by the Director of Human Resources, who said the university’s senior management team would never agree to such a fund. I sincerely hope you will disagree and order the setting up of this hardship fund as soon as possible.
If the marking boycott affects me, I kknow who I'll be holding responsible, and it's not those who felt the need to boycott.
pay should go up equally with inflation
No one should be earning 300k when people in the same institution, having an actual impact and relationship with students, are struggling to pay the mortgage. Your focus should be education not payment inequalities so make it write
I want you to know that if my degree suffers as a result of the marking boycott I will be holding you and university management responsible, not the staff members undertaking the boycott.
Why are the UCEA being controlled by goverment "quango's " when surely as our core business students pay fees exceeding£9k , surely this makes us part of the private sector?
a cost of living pay rise is not a lot to ask for .
This week I found that my Council Tax has gone up by 2.2% and water rates by 4%. Why should I accept 1%?
Currently, the system is appalling. It is only fair that this be sorted out in the proposed way for the sake of the staff and the students
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Just as a bit of feedback, from a student perspective. I am receiving a lot of strike and UCU related e-mails. I am finding it increasingly frustrating to see that students are effectively being punished because of disputes between lecturers and their employers over pay. As much as I would like to empathise with their situation, when their strike and boycott actions begin to impact students, then I have to draw a line and say that I feel it is outrageous. Added to this that we are effectively being emotionally blackmailed into supporting their issues, I struggle to feel any sympathy for their plight. Students have suffered a great deal over the years with increasing fees, cost of living, no real increase to funding etc. It seems like a huge insult and rubbing salt into the wounds that their now £9,000 per annum courses are constantly being interrupted by strikes and boycotts. I think that this amounts to nothing more than emotionally blackmailing students into supporting their actions by saying ‘support us and sign a petition to stop this boycott or else your marks will be delayed’. That’s not acceptable. As a student who suffers from severe anxiety issues myself, the standard wait for results is long enough. Adding to it by boycotting the process is out of order. Personally, if I had lectures, seminars and meetings cancelled, I’d want the proportional amount of my £9,000 back. I’d also seek legal advice if the delays in my marks exacerbated my illnesses. If my marks were delayed by a boycott and resulted in me missing out on a place or funding, then I would sue. ‘They feel they have been forced into taking this action because their employers have so far refused to enter into negotiations with them.’ – What a load of rubbish. They do have a choice and they’re choosing to put their own personal monetary gains above the education of people who have suffered a great deal of injustice already over the past few years and who ultimately contribute a fair amoun
I am signing, not because I want to, but because we are being emotionally blackmailed into signing. 'Support our petition or your marks will be late, we have no choice.' Choose not to punish students who have suffered enough themselves. I hope the pay rise is worth alienating students for.
[email protected]
Please use your influence to ensure that a marking boycott is avoided and that staff are not being paid less in real terms whilst the student fees (and therefore their expectations) go up
I am an honorary member of staff, now retired. Ἄξιος ὁ ἐργάτης τοῦ μισθοῦ αὐτοῦ. The labourer is worthy of his hire.
Tuition fees are so high, why not pass some of that to the lecturing staff?