Exeter Casualised Staff

We are casualised and precarious staff, sharing our stories of casualisation at the University of Exeter. Our DMs are open.

[Exeter Casualised Staff @execasuals]

Hot off the press: @ExeterUCU's report into casualisation and Covid-19.
https://t.co/Eu4lAgQ6Mz

Key findings:
Almost 40% of respondents said they were definitely at risk of losing work, with a further 28% stating they might be at risk #PrecarityStories

[Exeter Casualised Staff @execasuals]

@ne_al_ @ucu @WarwickAntiCas Casualised staff: Feel free to DM us if you want to do similar at Exeter :)

[Leicester UCU @leicesterucu]

Welcome back to the start of term .@uniofleicester & @leicesterucu. Our leadership team has another perfect moment for you, today emailing hundreds of staff to tell them they, or others in their teams, are at risk of redundancy. The timing is brutal, the process shady 1/

[Jim Dickinson @jim_dickinson]

"Senior member of Exeter Uni staff calls student protest ‘cyber terrorism’" https://t.co/AAcU24YCOy

[IWGB Universities of London @IWGBUoL]

Since launching our in-house campaign on 3 Dec, @UniofGreenwich VC Jane Harrington has visited many of us security 1-on-1 at work and wrote us all individual letters.

But she refuses to engage with our demands or our union.

Today, UoG we respond to her letters collectively:

[Exeter Casualised Staff @execasuals]

💪💪💪 Solidarity. Casualised staff have long been precarious. Moves toward redundancy for permanent staff are going in the exact wrong direction.

[Dr Rhian Elinor Keyse (she/her) @drrhianelinor]

Deeply, deeply worrying developments at my former employer, and in my former union branch. Solidarity with Exeter UCU rank and file members pushing for better.

[Vicky Blake UCU @vickyblake.bsky.social @zenscara]

We have very serious concerns over when + how any return to campus will be managed.

The plans are patchy + full of holes, again.

Students still face unfair rent bills.

The mess of 'arrangements' leading up to the winter break haven't instilled much confidence at all.
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[Exeter Casualised Staff @execasuals]

Really distasteful to try to legalistically avoid blame in a statement which should be focused on the death of a staff member. This is tragic news which will cause deep grief and suffering in a difficult year and this comment has absolutely no place in a statement of condolences.

[Exeter Casualised Staff @execasuals]

@AaronLoose99 @UniofExeter @ExeterUCU

[Exeposé @Exepose]

EXCLUSIVE: An Exeter student admitted to the University that they were responsible for "at least one" of the neo-Nazi ExeHonestly posts made in November 2019.

A student who was a victim of abuse connected to the posts was not told.

https://t.co/xuw8ruTe5O

[USSbriefs @USSbriefs]

Solidarity with Kingsley, who has been suspended after a student complained about him enforcing rules regarding mask-wearing.

We join many others in calling for @UniofGreenwich to drop this investigation

[USSbriefs @USSbriefs]

'The University area of Exeter has leapt into the top 10 of areas in England with positive cases of #COVID19 with a rise from 127 to 223 cases in today's updated figures showing the country's largest coronavirus clusters' @ExeterUCU https://t.co/NJJZTLlVKv

[#CoronaContract @CoronaContract]

For all those wondering how big an outbreak has to get before your university shifts to online teaching, the answer is: Bigger than this. 🦠🦠🦠

[RHUL Casuals @CasualsRhul]

This is the 'Canary-in-the-mine' moment for all UK universities. 1 in 35 students at Uni of Northumbria are covid positive.

[Emily @heliotropia]

Sick and tired of getting the same messages "your health and safety is our highest priority" when we can all see that's categorically not the case. PGR tutors who are higher-risk are being made to teach f2f and aren't going to be told if their students test positive. Terrifying.

[Exeter Casualised Staff @execasuals]

@ucu @DrJoGrady we have the receipts

[Exeter Casualised Staff @execasuals]

Just now on @BBCSpotlight @UniofExeter responds to a vulnerable student with cerebral palsy that “health and wellbeing of students, staff and the wider community will always be the number 1 priority.” That is clearly untrue, THEY HAVEN’T FOLLOWED THEIR OWN COVID GUIDELINES.👇

[Exeter Casualised Staff @execasuals]

Vulnerable staff including PGRs will now be asked to work in conditions that unis themselves like Keele, Bristol and Exeter had previously said would require a shift to online because of risk. Do all these staff even qualify for sick leave? What about risk to vulnerable students?

[Exeter Casualised Staff @execasuals]

Just now on @BBCSpotlight @UniofExeter responds to a vulnerable student with cerebral palsy that “health and wellbeing of students, staff and the wider community will always be the number 1 priority.” That is clearly untrue, THEY HAVEN’T FOLLOWED THEIR OWN COVID GUIDELINES.👇

[Exeter Casualised Staff @execasuals]

We are in a similar position except that instead, @UniofExeter has chosen to ignore their own level 4 guidelines, which are still up on their website.

[Exeter Casualised Staff @execasuals]

(Surely all these students deserve understanding and support? Just a thought.)

[University of Exeter @UniofExeter]

I also want us to remember that many of these young people are away from home for the first time and already had a difficult start to adulthood with now further pressures and consequences to face.Some will receive sanctions and fines but most deserve our understanding and support