{"id":19594,"date":"2018-02-23T14:45:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T14:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=19594"},"modified":"2018-02-23T15:23:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T15:23:03","slug":"uni-strikers-in-it-for-the-long-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/uni-strikers-in-it-for-the-long-haul\/","title":{"rendered":"Uni strikers ‘in it for the long haul’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A union is prepared to go on strike ‘for the long haul’ over a row about lecturers’\u00a0pensions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Universities and College Union (UCU) started its 14 day strike on Thursday in a bid to stop staff losing up to \u00a310,000 a year\u00a0under new proposals. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Fifteen vice chancellors have urged Universities UK\u00a0to reopen talks with academics. <\/strong><\/p>\n

But Andy Williams from the UCU said: “I’m optimistic the strike will end soon, but I’m prepared for the long haul.”<\/strong>
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Mr\u00a0Williams added: “UCU\u00a0in Cardiff has 1200 members which is a quarter of Cardiff University\u00a0staff. We’ve\u00a0had a higher turn out for this strike than any other university strike in the last 10 years at Cardiff University.”<\/p>\n

He\u00a0apologised to students for the disruption.<\/p>\n

Some students supported the action.<\/p>\n

Rhys Griffiths, studying maths, said: “I’m kind of annoyed it’s affecting our studies, especially since we paid so much to come here.”<\/p>\n

But Ruby O’Neill, studying English Literature,\u00a0added “it sucks for us, but it sucks that the government and the vice chancellor don’t want to fix it”.<\/p>\n

Jo Stevens, Labour MP for Cardiff Central, said:\u00a0“University lecturers are going on strike today not just for their pensions, but so students and future students can get the quality of education they deserve.”<\/p>\n

Cardiff University\u00a0has not\u00a0formerly responded to the strikers, but in a statement said it is\u00a0committed to minimising the disruption for students and will re-run classes when appropriate.<\/p>\n

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A union is prepared to go on strike ‘for the long haul’ over a row about lecturers’\u00a0pensions. The Universities and College Union (UCU) started its 14 day strike on Thursday in a bid to stop staff losing up to \u00a310,000 a year\u00a0under new proposals. Fifteen vice chancellors have urged Universities UK\u00a0to reopen talks with academics. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744,750],"tags":[52,335,467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19594"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19699,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19594\/revisions\/19699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}