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CDE visits the @RMTunion picket line! Rail workers are on strike against cuts and freezes to workers' pay. Come along to the Cambridge station until 2pm to show your support.
Collective action makes a difference! Solidarity between students & workers forever 💪💪💪
recognition is a huge step forward for working conditions, organising and union power!
✊together we can win✊
years of strikes, protest, occupations, organising and negotiations won this for @CambridgeUCU
When the University denies workers a real seat at the table by refusing to recognise UCU, students won't allow UCU's demands go unheard
Whilst Toope and other senior management enjoy fancy dinners and six figure paychecks, the workers that actually provide our education face increasing precarity, huge gender and racial pay gaps and massive pension cuts.
It is outrageous that University management still refuse to listen to the demands of UCU, forcing workers to go on strike for the third time this academic year
💥CDE DISRUPTS TOOPE SPEECH IN SUPPORT OF STRIKES💥
today, on the last working day before UCU goes on strike, we disrupted Toope's speech at the Clare benefactors dinner.
STRIKE UP A HOT DATE THIS VALENTINE'S 💌 🔥 💘
Strikes start 14/02 so spend the day of love with UCU! Send an anonymous love letter to your special someone here: forms.gle/NGEcuLHaYvDkQBMZ7, asking them to join you on the picket line 💌 💌 💌
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STRIKE DAY 1 HAS BEGUN! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Reminder that any in person faculty teaching is crossing the picket line, but so is online faculty teaching. Avoid your live lectures/classes - the whole point of a strike is to cause disruption!
🧵read for more info
Some strike support posters spotted around Cambridge 👀
[id: various photos of posters that say 'strike to win support staff' or 'dont cross a picket go back to bed' in different places around Cambridge city centre]
💥 "Without short-term strike disruption, there can be no long term change" 💥
Check out this article which describes why, for staff and students alike:
'To strike is to cause momentary disruption; to not strike is to cause a lifetime of it'
varsity.co.uk/opinion/22544
🤔 Are you a Fresher or second year? Are you unsure of what we actually mean when we say 'picket line'?
🧵Follow this thread for an explanation!
[Id: old photo of a picket line with an old cde member on the shoulders of someone, holding sign saying 'official picket'.]
💥Non-teaching students (UG & PG), staff & alumni: Sign our petition in solidarity with @CambridgeUCU's #Justice4CollegeSupervisors campaign!💥
The campaign demands paid training, secure contracts & fair payment for supervisors of undergrads.
Sign here👉 forms.gle/6Bvkw3PVJhZfax8x7
ALT On a purple background, text in white reads: #Justice4CollegeSupervisors We demand: - paid training - secure contracts - fair payment for supervisors across the university CDE stands in solidarity with UCU Sign the petition
💥 OPEN MEETING TODAY 💥
👉 Sidney Sussex JCR
👉5pm
Come along to get involved with strike support and find out how we can help out UCU in the wake of their big decision to strike!
fb.me/e/2QYsNxXyx
don't like govt and uni managements treatment of students and workers?
come to CDE's first meeting of term at 6pm this sunday and plot ways to support strikes, fight marketisation and build solidarity✨
💥Staff have worked extraordinarily hard to minimise disruption to our education during the pandemic, and deserve and have our full support in seeking an end to exploitative working conditions. Vote YES in the ballot running 18/10 - 4/11
