Wheelistically @ Claire.NU

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• Karl wrote:

  Mar 24, 2006 at 11:28 am

  The cur­rent indus­trial action…as in the rumoured strike actions next week?

  quite look­ing for­ward to that..I keep get­ting staff in here..“are you with the union?” “We’re strik­ing next week”.

  I’m not in a union, and if I was, I wouldn’t strike. We’ve had it here before. Staff block­ing the access road with plac­ards etc..I went to drive through and they star­ted to act nasty..so I reversed back, took my hands off the wheel and put it back in gear.

  The way I see it, if I’m being paid to work, then I’ll work. I don’t care what people say..:)
• Claire wrote:

  Mar 24, 2006 at 2:01 pm

  “The way I see it, if I’m being paid to work, then I’ll work. I don’t care what people say” — Seems fair enough to me, I’ve never really under­stood whether all this strik­ing lark bene­fits any­one in any case… As a stu­dent, the only impact it has ever had on me is either a neg­at­ive one, or none at all… Per­haps this isn’t the case for the staff involved though, else why would they do it?

  I’m not sure if it is the same strike, all I have is this in my stu­dent inbox:

  23 March 2006
  Indus­trial Action

  Fol­low­ing a national bal­lot of Asso­ci­ation of Uni­ver­sity Teach­ers (AUT) and National Asso­ci­ation of Teach­ers in Fur­ther and Higher Edu­ca­tion (NATFHE), mem­bers have sup­por­ted a call to strike and other indus­trial action. The strike took place on the 7^th March 2006 how­ever other indus­trial action will con­tinue until fur­ther notice – the focus of this action will be a boy­cott of assess­ment activities.

  The major impact on stu­dents in the near future is likely to be in rela­tion to the grad­ing of your TMAs. We don’t know at this point in time whether or not your tutor will be tak­ing part in the indus­trial action. If he or she does not par­ti­cip­ate then you will receive your marked TMA back in the nor­mal way, with both teach­ing com­ments and a grade. If he or she does par­ti­cip­ate and, as advised by the Asso­ci­ation of Uni­ver­sity Teach­ers, com­ments on but does not grade your TMA, your tutor will post it to the Assign­ment Hand­ling Office at Walton Hall in the usual way. We will take a pho­to­copy of the assign­ment and the PT3 before return­ing the assign­ment to you. (We will do this whether the assign­ment has been sub­mit­ted on paper or via the eTMA route.

  By tak­ing this action we will be able to deal with ungraded TMAs when we are in a pos­i­tion to do so. We are unable to say at this time when that will be, since we do not know how long the dis­pute will last.

  So, now I have to find out if any of my tutors are strik­ing and if my TMAs will be affected… Fun, fun
• Karl wrote:

  Mar 27, 2006 at 9:56 am

  Hmm…I think “our” strike is a UNISON one..I keep get­ting people com­ing up to me-“are you strik­ing?”. My usual response is “more so when naked, I’m afraid.”

  Even the head­mas­ter laughed. It amuses me that all the “sup­port” staff are run­ning around rub­bing their hands at the pro­spect of a day off…the looks I’m get­ting when I say I’m com­ing in — lets say dag­gers, and thats an understatement.

  I’m here to sup­port the kids and the staff..first and fore­most. I’ve ignored 2 strikes in my time here..I’ve taught IT before as well, so I daresay if we are down to a skel­eton staff I can lend a hand.

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