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Queen Mary docks 113 day's pay for marking boycott

"This spring, its academics joined a national union boycott of marking exams to protest against the low pay awards that have seen university lecturers’ salaries fall 25% behind inflation since the banking crash, and their deteriorating working conditions. By downing their red pens, tutors were hitting universities where it hurt most since they rely on student fees. But they kept up the other parts of the academic job: guiding students, doing research and writing papers. That did not pacify the bosses, who decreed that those withholding their marks would lose up to 113 days of pay one for each day of their boycott."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/22/university-took-staff-wages-scrooge-marking-boycott

Absolutely shocking behaviour for a charity.
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And folks, if this is the mercenary way it treats it's staff, its not exactly a great recommendation for being a student there is it.
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Original post by McGinger
And folks, if this is the mercenary way it treats it's staff, its not exactly a great recommendation for being a student there is it.

Exactly ... this is why I posted it.

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