{"id":18964,"date":"2018-02-09T17:49:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T17:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=18964"},"modified":"2018-02-10T11:07:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T11:07:41","slug":"students-union-want-strike-lecturers-to-think-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/students-union-want-strike-lecturers-to-think-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Students’ Union wants strike lecturers to think again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cardiff University Students’ Union (CUSU) have asked lecturers to rethink fourteen days of planned strike action.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Their comments go against the National Union of Students (NUS) which is calling for solidarity between lecturers and students during the strikes.<\/p>\n

In a joint statement with the Universities and Colleges Union (UCU), the NUS nationally asked students to take part in local demonstrations and encouraged meaningful negotiations with the universities to continue.<\/p>\n

But Cardiff University SU President, Hollie Cooke said that striking lecturers are “playing with some students’ lives.”<\/p>\n

The strikes are over a pension dispute which the\u00a0UCU claim will leave the average lecturer \u00a310,000 worse off in retirement.<\/p>\n

President Hollie Cooke said: “The strikes are a political lever anyway. It’s when it is done in a way that makes students suffer intentionally when it feels uncomfortable to me.<\/p>\n

“What I want is for people to really understand what is on the table, and the fact that they are really playing with some students lives.”<\/p>\n

She said the CUSU has to safeguard the students’ interests and the strikes harm their university experience.<\/p>\n

But spokesman for the Universities and Colleges Union and Cardiff University lecturer, Andy Williams said lecturers have received support from students.<\/p>\n

Mr Williams said: “It’s discouraging that Cardiff Students’ Union hasn’t seen fit to give us their support in this matter. But of course this is a democratic body and they make their own decisions, and it doesn’t really mean Cardiff students aren’t on our side either.”<\/p>\n

“The general trend across the country has been for students and lecturers to stand in solidarity.”<\/p>\n

The UCU and the NUS have encouraged students to write to the head of their institutions about the impact on their learning.<\/p>\n

The strikers have said they wont back down unless their employers, Universities UK rethink their changes to their pension scheme.<\/p>\n

But they say they’re open the meaningful negotiations on the issue, which is something that CUSU and the NUS both encourage.<\/p>\n

The planned strike is set to start on 22nd February, and Cardiff University have said they have plans in place to reduce disruption.<\/p>\n

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