Any H.E. workers going on strike?

[marialuisa]

Sorry, just curious. It's all anyone's talking about at work, although mostly it's people resigning their membership.

[Marina]

No. I'm a member of a union all right but not the ones taking action. My HE environment is an unusual one though Marialuisa, and we aren't in the mainstream - why is everyone resigning? Is it dissatisfaction with NATFHE?

[marialuisa]

Well it seems to be AUT (Russell Group thing?)dominated here. People are resigning because they don't support the strike at all, especially the reasons given.

[bossykate]

isn't it the AUT which has got a mandate for industrial action? i think NATFHE does not support industrial action. the report in the guardian today was rather garbled - at first seemed to be about tuition fees and then about pay. will ask dh.

[bossykate]

dh would not support a strike protesting against tuition fees but would be in favour of taking industrial action on pay.

[marialuisa]

AUT have voted for strike action, NAFTHE have rejected it. Find it difficult to be sympathetic to AUT whines about performance related pay etc. Also doesn't help that most prominent AUT voices here are the laziest shirkers going.

[bossykate]

here is the story

hard to argue with the 40% fall in pay, i'd have thought.