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Aipsh posted:I know someone working there (not in academics, but working with it) who literally heard nothing of this till they saw the tweet?? If they're not in UCU, the only noise being made about it comes in the form of lovely passive agressive emails from the principal Colin Bailey. The uni has taken an incredibly hard line on ASOS (action short of a strike, or working to contract). Anyone who missed teaching as they were on strike, then did not make up that teaching as they subsequently on ASOS, was threatened with 100% duductions until the teaching was made up, despite the fact these people would now be back at work full time. Then anyone involved in the marking boycott was threatened with 100% deductions from the day the assigments were given out to markers until the marks were handed in. This means we might as well have just been on strike for the whole period in terms of our pay. Bailey is essentially attempting to break UCU, as marking boycotts and ASOS have been really useful tools in past industrial action. If they can make us accept these deductions for non strike action, it's basically the end of any industrial action in academia as there will be no point taking any action except a full strike, which would quickly become financially unsustainable. QMUCU has had ~30 strike days so far this year, we're on 40 or so days of marking boycott. Most other universities have come to a local arrangement about it all, but our management refuse to budge at all. Honestly it sucks being a leftie in STEM. I was one of two people in my entire institue to join the strikes, everyone else just doesn't seem to care about their pay and conditions getting worse and, worse year on year.
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SpaceCommie posted:If they're not in UCU, the only noise being made about it comes in the form of lovely passive agressive emails from the principal Colin Bailey. The uni has taken an incredibly hard line on ASOS (action short of a strike, or working to contract). Anyone who missed teaching as they were on strike, then did not make up that teaching as they subsequently on ASOS, was threatened with 100% duductions until the teaching was made up, despite the fact these people would now be back at work full time. Then anyone involved in the marking boycott was threatened with 100% deductions from the day the assigments were given out to markers until the marks were handed in. This means we might as well have just been on strike for the whole period in terms of our pay. Thanks - I suppose my big question is how could it possibly be legal for the university to give people payslips of literally £0.00 when they have been working for 21 days in the month? I’m assuming there’s some sort of vague clause in contracts and/or they’re just hoping the government says it’s fine and makes it an encouraged method of strike breaking?
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Aipsh posted:Thanks - I suppose my big question is how could it possibly be legal for the university to give people payslips of literally £0.00 when they have been working for 21 days in the month? Not an expert but surely you should at least get paid for the work you have done? Something something "quantum meruit"?
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Aipsh posted:Thanks - I suppose my big question is how could it possibly be legal for the university to give people payslips of literally £0.00 when they have been working for 21 days in the month? I've not been marking so i'm not sure about the exact next steps, but these things can only be contested in court after deductions have taken place, which is now likely to happen. We'll have to wait and see what the judgement is on it. Our strike fund doing OK and the union has a wage sharing scheme should those funds run dry, but I imagine a lot of my colleagues are really hurting from this right now. I hope, for them, that the university is utterly humiliated in court. The standard line in management emails has been "Queen Mary does not accept partial performance". I think the universities plan has been to try and bully us into backing down before it gets to court. It does sound like, outside of senior management, no one else actually wants to do this, or thinks it's a good idea.
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Aipsh posted:Thanks - I suppose my big question is how could it possibly be legal for the university to give people payslips of literally £0.00 when they have been working for 21 days in the month? The rule is strike deductions are legal, but aren't one of the (very few) cases where you can go below minimum wage for hours worked. If you were on the clock you get paid. Even if you sign a contract saying otherwise you can just go to tribunal every three months until your employer stops being a prick. The government will almost certainly seek to change the law if it comes up, but if the uni are actually handing out void payslips to staff, their legal team will be desperately trying to make them reconsider before your union get to drag them to a show trial
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https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1550365547983945731 e: Dover is apparently hosed. They've declared a critical incident and told people to avoid the town. https://twitter.com/ABClimateAction/status/1550378633491087360 fuctifino fucked around with this message at 08:57 on Jul 22, 2022 |
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Do you think people waiting in multi-hour queues to get on a ferry in dover all live there or something?
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So, good aircon recommendations? I saw Lidl had one but I assume they're all loving gone. I held off thinking it would be pointless, we'd only use it a couple of days a year and I'd be too cheap to run it all day on hot days anyway, but honestly sitting and working from home in a brick house in 39 degree heat is not an experience I want to repeat. Even if I only run it a few times a year it'd be worth it, and it's not like these heatwaves are going to start happening less often.
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It's cool that we did Brexit to prove that it wouldn't work. I think that shows excellent foresight
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Surprise T Rex posted:So, good aircon recommendations? I saw Lidl had one but I assume they're all loving gone. I used an Igenix and my biggest complaint on Monday/Tuesday when in my room was the cold air blowing out of it was making my left elbow too cold. The specific model seems to be out of production but my parents have this one and was apparently a Godsend for them and the dog https://www.amazon.co.uk/Igenix-IG9909-Conditioner-Dehumidifier-Programmable/dp/B095HQTVGT/
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Surprise T Rex posted:So, good aircon recommendations? I saw Lidl had one but I assume they're all loving gone. I've got a standalone unit by Goodhome, bought it from Screwfix or Toolstation a few years back, it works well and like you I needed it for those few days/nights when it was just unbearable without. I also made a window template to get a good seal as I couldn't find one that would fit my skylight.
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wurwuugh stelluh wrinkly
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fuctifino posted:
EU plan proceeding as intended, soon the only way to get in and out of the UK will be via the Irish border... checkmate DUP!!!!!
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Convex posted:It's cool that we did Brexit to prove that it wouldn't work. I think that shows excellent foresight I did have to laugh that Truss has recanted her previous Remain position, ostensibly based on the fact that the worst predictions didn't (?!) come to pass. It must be fairly reassuring to the Tory membership to know that their leaders will happily lie their arses off for a sniff of power. (And very nice that autocorrect will change "lie" to "line" for me, though it is certainly true that they will also happily line their pockets too)
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Marmaduke! posted:I did have to laugh that Truss has recanted her previous Remain position, ostensibly based on the fact that the worst predictions didn't (?!) come to pass. It must be fairly reassuring to the Tory membership to know that their leaders will happily lie their arses off for a sniff of power. I mean she was an avowed republican and lib dem youth wing leader at one point, so she has practice.
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lol Kate Middleton is trending on Twitter because she demanded Meghan Markle wear tights to her own wedding and was surprised and extremely angry when the bridge-to-be told her no, leading to the hashtag #DuchessOfTights e.g. https://twitter.com/shae90_shae/status/1550205509269131265
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Tesseraction posted:lol Kate Middleton is trending on Twitter because she demanded Meghan Markle wear tights to her own wedding and was surprised and extremely angry when the bridge-to-be told her no, leading to the hashtag #DuchessOfTights This is the type of royal drama people really want. Not serious stuff (take note prince andrew).
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Well, it fits into the more serious wider issue that the royal family is super racist and Markle being half-darkie made them furious.
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Kate Middleclass sailing a little close to the wind, there. You married in, you got a good thing going, don't rock the boat.
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1550365547983945731 But imagine all that treasure though, so many piss filled bottles and bags of poo poo all over the place. There's gold on them thar roads!
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Tesseraction posted:Well, it fits into the more serious wider issue that the royal family is super racist and Markle being half-darkie made them furious. I must have misunderstood the context.
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Jippa posted:I must have misunderstood the context. It's basically that Kate looks down on Meghan and treated her like poo poo constantly.
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Only Kindness posted:
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Brexit: UK's divorce bill from EU could rise to £42.5bnquote:Originally, the government estimated the bill, which covers spending commitments made during the UK's membership of the EU, would be between £35bn and £39bn. good thing we have a massive, unfixed multi-decade liability going into the biggest economic depression of all time
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Tesseraction posted:lol Kate Middleton is trending on Twitter because she demanded Meghan Markle wear tights to her own wedding and was surprised and extremely angry when the bridge-to-be told her no, leading to the hashtag #DuchessOfTights This makes no sense to me. Why would this be something worth making a fuss about? These people need real jobs so they don't have the energy to waste on this poo poo. Find a place for Kate doing 8.5 hour days at her local Tesco.
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Convex posted:Brexit: UK's divorce bill from EU could rise to £42.5bn Brexit was a years long project to sink the pound and profit from it. The harder the brexit, the lower the pound, the more money they made. Everything, petrol prices, the increasing cost, is due to the pound being hilariously low (<1.2 dollars now!) but as this was the whole point (and how they are making the fortune from it), then just see how the press avoids actually mentioning it at all.
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OzyMandrill posted:... just see how the press avoids actually mentioning it at all. They wouldn't want to embarrass themselves unduly, surely.
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I can't imagine Kate being assertive enough to demand stuff of anyone tbh.
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Pistol_Pete posted:I can't imagine Kate being assertive enough to demand stuff of anyone tbh. you can't imagine a member of the royal family demanding things?
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Pistol_Pete posted:I can't imagine Kate being assertive enough to demand stuff of anyone tbh. This is exactly how I imagine it being let alone a wedding.
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happyhippy posted:But imagine all that treasure though, so many piss filled bottles and bags of poo poo all over the place. The mayor of Dover turned to the crowd, and holding the piss bottle aloft, proclaimed, "pecunia non olet!" see, Johnson, that's how you do a half-remembered classical reference
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Pistol_Pete posted:I can't imagine Kate being assertive enough to demand stuff of anyone tbh. One of her kids is going to be the monarch in the future. Head of the Commonwealth. One of the biggest landlords in the country. And her husband almost certainly had an affair with someone much less attractive than her. Being a oval office to everyone you deem less worthy than you is pretty much baked into her role now. Probably a decent survival strategy, too, if she doesn't want to avoid underpasses for the rest of her life.
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Kieth should be Miles ahead but the , erm, *checks notes* Tories being absolutely loving useless and presiding over a shitshow is holding him back!!! https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/22/labour-tory-leadership-keir-starmer-conservative
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