#WhyImStriking
As I explained to my students today, I don’t have it so bad. But I refuse to walk through a picket of precariously employed junior colleagues who essentially work for less than minimum wage on zero hours contracts to go to my permanent post. That is not solidarity.
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I don’t pay into the pension (couldn’t afford to for many years, and it’s so beleaguered now - and our planet is in turmoil - that it seems pointless to start), and I’m the only wage earner at the moment for my family of 4. Even three days of not being paid hurts.
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I still have not paid off the unsecured debt I racked up as a phd student. I also have never personally voted to strike. But our union lives or dies on the unity of its members. So I will strike when called upon to do so even if it doesn’t always feel in my personal interests
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Because it is *certainly* in the interests of the HE sector and in the interests of the job I love so much that I’ve seen destroyed little by little year on year
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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@blue_stocking
I'm in my first year of a PhD, I love my research area, I really enjoy helping out to teach on some of the undergraduate modules but I really doubt I'll pursue a career in academia once I'm done which is sad but the instability in the sector and the pay considering skill level
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