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purplecat ([personal profile] purplecat) wrote 2011-07-12 12:50 pm (UTC)

I think it's a facet of the factionalism within the university system that the UCU only really well represents a subset of the interests of academics. I was AUT rep for my dept (in pre-UCU) days and I got increasingly irritated by the total lack of any attention paid to the concerns of research staff in its rag, not to mention being put in the ludicrous position of being placed on a picket line petitioning for the rights of support staff (when Unison wasn't on strike) and with literature to hand out that complained that the university's pay scale reforms would cause teaching quality to suffer with more time devoted to research (not an easy position to justify to my colleagues as well as being completely daft and unrelated to the issue at hand).

I'm not even a member any more, though one of the subsets of academia they do represent pretty well are staff on short-term and open-ended contracts like mine.

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