February 2020
The Department of Gender Studies stands in solidarity with colleagues participating in the UCU industrial action over pay, workload, equality, casualisation.
We support our striking colleagues because:
- We agree with the demands to limit casualisation, properly address staff workload, reduce pay inequality and improve below-inflation pay offer.
- We understand the interconnected matters of pay, workload, equality, and casualisation to be a gendered and an intersectional issue affecting women and minorities more than other workers. Erosion of employment security disproportionately affects early career and precarious workers.
- We value the right to collective voice of university workers whose intellectual, pastoral, and administrative labour makes the very existence of the higher education sector possible
- We back our colleagues and UCU in the call for employers to engage in meaningful negotiations and lament the lack of political participation represented by ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ union members' failure to return their ballots.
Signed: Walaa Alqaisiya, Jacob Breslow, Clare Hemmings, Marsha Henry, Hazel Johnstone, Naila Kabeer, Ece Kocabicak, Daniel Luther, Sumi Madhok, Anouk Patel-Campillo, Lucia Pedroli, Diane Perrons, Ania Plomien, Leticia Sabsay, Nazanin Shahrokni, Wendy Sigle, Emma Spruce, Kate Steward, Aisling Swaine , Sadie Wearing