UCU members will go out on strike on Wednesday 5th May, along with other Universities in London.
Students at Sussex and surrounding FE colleges are encouraged to join the picket line in defence of over 115 proposed compulsory redundancies.
A collection of first year students and others living on Campus will be assembling outside East Slope bar at noon, to show solidarity and join the picket line, marching past Sussex House on the way.
There is to be a march that will set off from the Level at 4.30pm, arriving at The Old Ship at 5.30 pm where a rally will take place.
Speakers at the rally are to include:
Alasdair Hunter (National President of the UCU); Paul Cecil and Jim Guild (Chair and Secretary of the UCU at the University of Sussex); Tom Wills (President) and Syed Bokhari from the University of Sussex Students’ Union; members of the University of Brighton Students’ Union; Sue Tribe (Adult and Continuing Education, Brighton); Tom Hickey (University of Brighton and National Executive UCU); Micheal O’Connell and Alison Kelly (Brighton City College); Michael Moran (Regional Official, UCU); and prospective Parliamentary candidates who have been invited to give their views on the education cuts.
As always, the Stop the Cuts campaign needs as much help as we can get- flyers can be printed using the links below- it is vital that we get the message out to students to not cross the picket line and also that we show our support to those members of staff that will be out on Strike on Wednesday.
Solidarity from Lancaster!
I wish the UCU (and the NUS) had called national strikes… would be good to actually see active solidarity, with lecturers, TAs, other staff and students around the country coming out in strike action. This is what we need – and soon! What has happened to the NUS? It is full of bureaucratic careerists who have forgotten the needs and demands of students. The NUS leaders are appeasing politicians and need to be kicked out quickly. Likewise the UCU has been too close at times to New Labour. The UCU and NUS should be focussing on those it pretends to represent, and not on that narrow and over specialized realm called “politics”. It needs to start calling for strikes in solidarity across the UK. Then we would quickly see some changes.
Still, this strike action is significant and encouraging
Good luck!
All best,
Wit