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MotherofPearl · 22/03/2023 21:04
ExUCU · 22/03/2023 20:08
And UCU St Andrews have already produced a home-made Pride banner:
https://twitter.com/kirstyegraham/status/1638532313364529154?cxt=HHwWhIC8saWdnr0tAAAA
I thought Pride was in June?
Some of these terminally online academics appear to be full-time activists. This does undermine the argument that we are terribly overworked. I don’t have time to get my sewing machine out or to cold-call academics who don’t want to hear from me, I’ve got a job to do. Hope Hagenilda has improved her bedside manner, didn’t think being nice, charming and persuasive was her skill-set exactly …
Good point about the time/overworked point. My colleagues in UCU seem to spend their lives on Twitter (whether on strike or not).
Students know I'm not on strike so I am currently fielding lots of extra emails from my colleagues' PTs who have nobody else to turn to with questions about extensions, mitigation, wanting tutorials etc. I answer them all and try to help as it's of course the students who are suffering, but it's a bit galling doing colleagues' work while they're on bloody Twitter all day long.
I don't have a Twitter account and never go on it because I spend enough time on MN already.
KStockHERO · 23/03/2023 09:10
ExUCU · 22/03/2023 16:00
Looks grim all around, manhandled students and security called ‘scum’:
https://mobile.twitter.com/rentstrikeUoM/status/1638451005493764097
What a shit-show.
These students are an absolute embarrassment - mediocre, middle-class children cosplaying at some rose-tinted idea they have of a radical mid-century student movement.
And, of course, egged on by UCU - the supposed adults.
As PP have said, don't UCU people realise that their tweeting this sort of gubbins is pushing UCU-skeptics further and further from them 😬
KStockHERO · 23/03/2023 13:41
Christ on a bike 😱😱😱😱
I'm cringing so hard, I'm in actual physical pain.
https://twitter.com/HPragmatics/status/1638853044086665220
MotherofPearl · 23/03/2023 15:17
KStockHERO · 23/03/2023 13:41
Christ on a bike 😱😱😱😱
I'm cringing so hard, I'm in actual physical pain.
<reaches for eye and ear bleach>
ExUCU · 24/03/2023 19:27
KStockHERO · 23/03/2023 13:41
Christ on a bike 😱😱😱😱
I'm cringing so hard, I'm in actual physical pain.
Painful, very painful. Could I blame students who mined this to embarrass their lecturers in the future? I‘m honestly struggling a bit.
SirTiffikate · 25/03/2023 22:27
KStockHERO · 23/03/2023 13:41
Christ on a bike 😱😱😱😱
I'm cringing so hard, I'm in actual physical pain.
Featuring UCU Scotland President Lena Wånggren and UCU Scotland Vice President elect Grant Buttars. Yes, that's who's running the show in Scotland. Edinburgh UCU branch is one of the most dysfunctional branches in a highly dysfunctional union.
ExUCU · 09/05/2023 11:36
Jo Grady has agreed to pay libel damages:
https://twitter.com/PaulEmbery/status/1655875078603644929
https://twitter.com/PaulEmbery/status/1655875078603644929
aridapricot · 09/05/2023 13:11
I think Embery filmed some young women behaving obnoxiously on a train and put the clip up on twitter, with Grady accusing him of being a misogynistic, etc.
I think Embery is a bit of an eejit and his video should have been taken down, but Grady chiming in as a union leader seems somewhat... undignified to me. Like she is in the lookout for any Very Online person to post something ludicrous to call them out.
ehtelp · 09/05/2023 13:26
@exUCU according to
https://www.brettwilson.co.uk/blog/ucu-general-secretary-jo-grady-pays-paul-embery-twitter-libel-damages/
“Grow up Paul and take a day off bullying women and pretending to be outraged for clicks. It’s pathetic at any age, but especially yours” and “It’s creepy to record young women on the train, share that video, and lie about them on social media for clout.”
Press Release: UCU General Secretary Jo Grady pays Paul Embery Twitter libel damages - Brett Wilson LLP
UCU General Secretary Dr Jo Grady has agreed to pay substantial damages to firefighter, trade unionist and writer Paul Embery, after defaming him on
https://www.brettwilson.co.uk/blog/ucu-general-secretary-jo-grady-pays-paul-embery-twitter-libel-damages
ExUCU · 09/05/2023 15:03
Jo Grady is getting paid a salary that puts her in the top 1% of earners. (According to this statistic based on 2019 ONS data: https://www.statista.com/chart/20092/how-much-pay-makes-you-a-top-earner-in-the-uk/ )
Worse, her salary is funded by union dues. This entirely avoidable episode must have cost her time and energy, and the matter has absolutely zero to do with the politics of higher education. She is unfit for office, has been for a long time, and yet she is the de facto representative of UK academics …
Infographic: How much pay makes you a top earner in the UK?
This infographic shows the average annual gross pay of UK employees in the top earning percentiles in 2019.
https://www.statista.com/chart/20092/how-much-pay-makes-you-a-top-earner-in-the-uk/
aridapricot · 09/05/2023 17:39
And that's Jo Grady's press release on the matter... https://twitter.com/DrJoGrady/status/1655908999303254016
https://twitter.com/DrJoGrady/status/1655908999303254016
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