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Sheffield, Keele and Leeds have apparently announced that any staff not rescheduling classes in the next five days are going to have 100% of pay withheld until they do. Kent have told striking sessional staff that they are having pay deducted at an hourly rate higher than their actual hourly rates for teaching missed so far. In essence meaning some people will be earning negative pay this month. gently caress these cunts. gently caress these cunts who are destroying academia, and making it a vile, oppressive place to work. I think I’m going to start looking at what other professions I might have an aptitude for... Edit: 2 is the number of fingers I’m giving any member of HR when I see them today. Think I’ll spend my seminars lecturing about strikes and civil disobedience...
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ukle posted:RED WARNING NOW FOR THE SOUTH WEST / WALES! Starts tonight at 3pm! Thanks for this. Also thankful I'm not reliant on Arriva Trains to get back. They're already cancelling services I believe.
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Zephro posted:Rear wheel drive sucks in the snow Colossal smugness as I was driving to work in my Skoda Fabia this morning overtaking Audis and other drivers who don't know the One Cool Trick to getting up icy inclines crawl in second gear
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Pesmerga posted:Sheffield, Keele and Leeds have apparently announced that any staff not rescheduling classes in the next five days are going to have 100% of pay withheld until they do. Kent have told striking sessional staff that they are having pay deducted at an hourly rate higher than their actual hourly rates for teaching missed so far. In essence meaning some people will be earning negative pay this month. I usually find I express myself better in writing than I do in person, but I can't figure out how to get across how absolutely loving furious this makes me
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Pesmerga posted:Sheffield, Keele and Leeds have apparently announced that any staff not rescheduling classes in the next five days are going to have 100% of pay withheld until they do. Kent have told striking sessional staff that they are having pay deducted at an hourly rate higher than their actual hourly rates for teaching missed so far. In essence meaning some people will be earning negative pay this month. They did basically the same thing to doctors. We worked out that the 'daily' rate we were being deducted for striking would exceed our monthly salary in about 18 days.
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Kegluneq posted:Colossal smugness as I was driving to work in my Skoda Fabia this morning overtaking Audis and other drivers who don't know the One Cool Trick to getting up icy inclines crawl in second gear Fill the boot with bricks?
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Excellent ham themed OP PS, would touch with sex parts if I was a former Tory MP.Zephro posted:Rear wheel drive sucks in the snow ukle posted:RED WARNING NOW FOR THE SOUTH WEST / WALES! Starts tonight at 3pm!  Thanks Ants posted:He’s
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Biggus Dickus posted:Fill the boot with bricks? Front wheel drive and flipping the drivers of more expensive cars the bird works too
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National Grid Warns UK is Running Out of Gas: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/mar/01/uk-is-running-out-of-gas-national-grid-warns-freezing-weather?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other The Guardian posted:National Grid has issued a warning that the UK will not have enough gas to meet demand on Thursday, as temperatures plummeted and imports were hit by outages.
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Got into work and got told we're closed from midday through the weekend 
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Taking bets on the first tabloid to have the headline “RED WARNING” with a picture of the absolute boy next to it
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Pesmerga posted:Sheffield, Keele and Leeds have apparently announced that any staff not rescheduling classes in the next five days are going to have 100% of pay withheld until they do. Kent have told striking sessional staff that they are having pay deducted at an hourly rate higher than their actual hourly rates for teaching missed so far. In essence meaning some people will be earning negative pay this month. Doesn't your union have a strike fund or something to compensate for lost wages
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I took the day off for a flat inspect and some other stuff but they just cancelled on me and now a red warning has been issued, thus my day being taken off for nothing 
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Had to force myself out the door today, guess that's what I get for staying indoors yesterday (there's a snowdrift right behind the door) https://twitter.com/ThaumPenguin/status/969118906668503040 At least the snow's fairly light
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Reports of the M62 is shut near Huddersfield - so if you go over the tops at all you are now hosed as near enough every other main trans Pennine road route is shut - only the M65 is open. update - M62 is shut southbound the snowplow that was clearing it has got itself stuck, god knows what they do in that situation. ukle fucked around with this message at 10:51 on Mar 1, 2018 |
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Pesmerga posted:Sheffield, Keele and Leeds have apparently announced that any staff not rescheduling classes in the next five days are going to have 100% of pay withheld until they do. Kent have told striking sessional staff that they are having pay deducted at an hourly rate higher than their actual hourly rates for teaching missed so far. In essence meaning some people will be earning negative pay this month. How is this not straight up illegal?
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Kegluneq posted:Front wheel drive and flipping the drivers of more expensive cars the bird works too
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Because the government actually doesn't like strikers.
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Biggus Dickus posted:National Grid Warns UK is Running Out of Gas:
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Zephro posted:Who could have guessed that closing Britain's only significant storage site would be a really bad idea I don't know if you've noticed but "thinking things through" isn't one of the tories' strengths.
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Miftan posted:I don't know if you've noticed but "thinking things through" isn't one of the tories' strengths. Killing the vulnerable is. They just misjudged this time, because it's going to be pensioners.
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Jedit posted:How is this not straight up illegal? In broad contractual terms (not an employment lawyer), withholding moneys due under a contract is a breach of contract, but, if a person so doing has also suffered a loss as a result of the other party's breach, they've got a defence by way of set off up to the value of that loss; for most staff, not rescheduling lectures is a breach of contract, so - assuming the universities use the withheld moneys to bring in We do have a strike fund, and it's not a lot but my branch voted to throw in £5k (plus individual contributions) yesterday & it sounds like we'll be tripling it if we can't swing another reballot, so at least we're doing something. Anyone in hardship should talk to the Union. e: context Borrovan fucked around with this message at 11:08 on Mar 1, 2018 |
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Let's increase our dependency on imported fossil fuels by ending subsidies for local wind and solar generation what could possibly go wro-
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Mar 1, 2018 11:03
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Reopen the pits. Then put the Tories inside. Then seal them again.
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Everyone's working from home except for me. I'm the anti-Jose
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Gort posted:Let's increase our dependency on imported fossil fuels by ending subsidies for local wind and solar generation what could possibly go wro- In fairness, I'm not sure what more solar panels will do to power my gas central heating.
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Guavanaut posted:Reopen the pits. what if they escape though 
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Regarde Aduck posted:Did that claim that the person in charge of picking the audiences is a big old fascist turn out to be true? Because if so they might have an infestation. Not only was that true, that person is still in the same job I believe lol
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mehall posted:In fairness, I'm not sure what more solar panels will do to power my gas central heating.
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This gas shortage wouldn't have happened if those eco warriors didn't get a pissy fit over fracking
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quote:On Labour’s move to support a new customs union with the EU, he said: “I think the labour party shift is sensible although frankly I think they will very soon find that we have got to move further in order to solve the dilemma ourselves.” that's Blair there praising the current Labour cabinet 
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:Doesn't your union have a strike fund or something to compensate for lost wages We do, but this is still disgusting behaviour by the Universities and pointing it out is only right. In vaguely related news, since the recent exposure that Oxford had pushed hard for the adoption of defined contribution pensions by USS without any internal consultation a motion is now being rushed to Congregation to reverse this position and accept the level of risk associated with a defined benefit system. It would be helpful if it passed, but I suspect it's not likely to.
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Cerv posted:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/01/tony-blair-pm-has-no-hope-of-achieving-brexit-aims MikeCrotch posted:Not only was that true, that person is still in the same job I believe
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Looke posted:what if they escape though That's fine, it won't be for ten thousand years.
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Matt Matt Hancock Hancock is closing the Leveson Inquiry because there's nothing wrong with print journalism at all no siree
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Everyone's working from home except for me. I'm the anti-Jose The anti Jose would massively over prepare for the snow and die immediately
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mehall posted:In fairness, I'm not sure what more solar panels will do to power my gas central heating. Alternatively just use sunlight to grow leafy things in a vertical garden along your back wall and compost them into methane. e:^^^ Jesús and Jose, a modern day Goofus and Gallant.
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