Supporting AUT and NATFHE Pay Dispute Strike
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Concerning the AUT and/or NATFHE members strike for 7th March 2006 (and ongoing until resolution)
By Signing this Petition you are simply offering support to Tutors currently forced to take action in order to raise wages across the country, the aim of this support is to motivate Universities to pay Tutors an acceptable wage.
"University academics are probably the one group of professionals in the country whose salaries have barely risen in line with inflation."
Prime Minister Tony Blair, BBC Newsnight, 19 Jan 2004
You might also like to check your MP is involved:
http://www.aut.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=1370
BACKGROUND INFO:
Universities across the UK will be brought to a complete halt on Tuesday 7 March by a day of strike action, with an assessment boycott beginning the following day.
The "vast majority" of Lecturers, researchers and academic related staff will refuse to cover colleagues work, mark students' work or take part in the exam process as part as an ongoing boycott.
The academic unions AUT and NATFHE voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action last week and warned today that unless the employers make a concerted and swift effort to resolve the pay dispute, millions of students will be left with coursework unmarked, lectures and seminars cancelled, and their exam programmes thrown into chaos.
The unions today made it clear that taking industrial action is an absolute last resort and they remain committed to resolving the dispute at the negotiating table, not on the picket line.
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Nobody in AUT or NATFHE wants to harm the prospects of students. Please help
us get this dispute settled. Contact your University or college today to ask
them to begin serious negotiations with the unions.
NUS are supporting the unions' actions, as they
recognise that their members do not want to be taught by underpaid and
de-motivated lecturers.
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In order for this Petition to be effective please sign it and pass the URL on to anyone at your University. Add your University Email address for verification. Once you have as many signatures as possible from your University pass it along to your Chancellor, Vice Chancellor or head of department.
Send it to your parents, relatives, Old teachers, Current Lecturers, but most importantly your classmates and sports buddies. Everyone wants to learn.
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Let's get this debate underway as soon as possible and, whatever the outcome, let's support the people that are teaching us the skills we will be using for the rest of our lives!
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For more Info and Quotes from MPs reading the Bills for HE pay VISIT: http://www.aut.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=1341
Most text intellectual copyright AUT: http://www.aut.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=1527
also you could visit: http://www.nusonline.co.uk/
By Signing this Petition you are simply offering support to Tutors currently forced to take action in order to raise wages across the country, the aim of this support is to motivate Universities to pay Tutors an acceptable wage.
"University academics are probably the one group of professionals in the country whose salaries have barely risen in line with inflation."
Prime Minister Tony Blair, BBC Newsnight, 19 Jan 2004
You might also like to check your MP is involved:
http://www.aut.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=1370
BACKGROUND INFO:
Universities across the UK will be brought to a complete halt on Tuesday 7 March by a day of strike action, with an assessment boycott beginning the following day.
The "vast majority" of Lecturers, researchers and academic related staff will refuse to cover colleagues work, mark students' work or take part in the exam process as part as an ongoing boycott.
The academic unions AUT and NATFHE voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action last week and warned today that unless the employers make a concerted and swift effort to resolve the pay dispute, millions of students will be left with coursework unmarked, lectures and seminars cancelled, and their exam programmes thrown into chaos.
The unions today made it clear that taking industrial action is an absolute last resort and they remain committed to resolving the dispute at the negotiating table, not on the picket line.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nobody in AUT or NATFHE wants to harm the prospects of students. Please help
us get this dispute settled. Contact your University or college today to ask
them to begin serious negotiations with the unions.
NUS are supporting the unions' actions, as they
recognise that their members do not want to be taught by underpaid and
de-motivated lecturers.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
In order for this Petition to be effective please sign it and pass the URL on to anyone at your University. Add your University Email address for verification. Once you have as many signatures as possible from your University pass it along to your Chancellor, Vice Chancellor or head of department.
Send it to your parents, relatives, Old teachers, Current Lecturers, but most importantly your classmates and sports buddies. Everyone wants to learn.
--
Let's get this debate underway as soon as possible and, whatever the outcome, let's support the people that are teaching us the skills we will be using for the rest of our lives!
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For more Info and Quotes from MPs reading the Bills for HE pay VISIT: http://www.aut.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=1341
Most text intellectual copyright AUT: http://www.aut.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=1527
also you could visit: http://www.nusonline.co.uk/
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