Union boss says privatisation has decimated Universities

[@joetrent4753]

I keep hearing well off politicians and journalists saying the strikers are selfish and greedy and claiming they are all on really high salaries as if to suggest they are only striking for money and nothing else. This gets easily debunked but the politicians and journalists never seem to waver from these untruths.

[@frankieseward8667]

Because if they do it'll mean they lost. Even though they're already losing. It's only a matter of time before this crisis destroys the Tories

[@frankieseward8667]

@J C the problem that creates paranoia. If they think they'll be disposed the moment they're no longer able to work, that creates mistrust and fear. That snowballs very quickly.

[@marcusavey8529]

@@frankieseward8667 unfortunately "the man on the street" isn't very smart, he doesn't realise that all of these unions are directly affiliated with the labour party, and this is a staged coup, it's not really a crisis, it's a half arsed awakening, people will flock to labour, and the process will repeat, but worse, people forget that tony blair setup EVERYTHING that the tories now take advantage of, and vice-versa, they could vote for a third party, but world war 2 psy-op's ensured no one ever voted for a third party ever again, stuck, is the term i would use, the common folk are stuck, and i can assure you, those labour based union workers going on strike, is not the common folk, in fact, i have a parlimaentary ombudsmans investigation into the NHS, and i'll gladly spit on any medical staff i ever speak to again, got nothing to do with politics, they all gladly peddle big pharma, the doctors, not the politicians, where's my representation? do you even know how many lives these "doctors and nurses" have ruined?

[@michaelandrews4783]

They are all liars paid by the rich to keep you poor and powerless they way they like it.

[@jennifersivewright3117]

Dan Wootton? Or any journalist on GB News.

[@pdyer7506]

couldn't agree more , all support to all workers

[@ginadean499]

education should not be a buisness,,a capitalist venture,,solidarity with all strikers,protesters,marchers,speakers,and all working class people

[@danh5637]

so you’re saying the government are crap at running things. but you want to make it state controlled. that’s some serious doublethink!

[@ginadean499]

@@danh5637 state controlled and ran well as it should be shouldnt be difficult to understand

[@ignoranceisbliss6259]

Out-sourcing is just a way to channel money into the pockets of the political donor class.

[@caspar_gomez]

making universities run for profit was the worst thing to happen, the salaries they offer for post graduates is shocking, research assistants on 18k I made more stacking shelves before I had 2 degrees

[@Believe-you-me-]

Did you not look into what you could earn with your 2 degrees?

[@caspar_gomez]

@@Believe-you-me- I can earn 60k+ as a medical genomicist or a data analyst, Im saying if you want to do research at a university, there's highly educated people getting paid 18-22k and it's wrong.

[@Believe-you-me-]

@@caspar_gomez You are not forced to take that job. Maybe raise tuition fees even more to facilitate that huge pay??

[@caspar_gomez]

@@Believe-you-me- and this is why science is in the sorry state it is and why the pandemic was the shitshow it was. Academia, education, healthcare, energy, water etc should not be run for profit. It doesnt work. And *you* will pay the price, you just wont realise until its too late to fix. Problem is youre taking us with you

[@caspar_gomez]

@@Believe-you-me- and I didnt take that job, I don't work in research... doesnt mean those people should be on 20k. It always takes 2 mins to get to the core of you peoples mentality, selfish.

[@raymondelf7520]

notice the so called main media don't talk to these pepole anymore London media is always on the goverments side , you hear it all the time with the wagging finger at you for wanting a better life

[@reigndespair7053]

You're right Jo. Just a basic example: Why should I pay for a Costa coffee on a college/university campus when a college/university canteen could do the same for cheaper, and for a fairer price. I just don't understand. How bazaar. At least students can get a free McDonald's cheese burger though... It's time for change, let's sort it out...

[@jamesthompson2065]

For as long as money leaves the UK and heads to the Cayman Islands, there will forever be an imbalance that means we're all worse off, as we're the ones who have to replace the missing funding. I wouldn't mind some aspects of privatisation as long as the profits shareholders make are re-invested to make a service better, but alas, it goes to a bank account far, far away. Where we can't even recover a percentage of it through tax.

[@Hollywood041]

Not just being in debt either. Some people prior to CoVid were operating that way, but able to cobble bits together that might constitute Savings/Investment and then because of layoffs, or due to inflation, whatever recently they operated at a deficit... literally spending more than they are making, eating into those future hopes so that they can survive today. It's completely fucked. And this happened b/c we let our govts, let companies, rob us of our value. Enough is enough.

[@ahmedmahmood7004]

If this doesn't work we should just stop paying our bills

[@danh5637]

good luck without a house and electricity.

[@roymillsjnr5172]

Education should be free to all and classless up the strikers👍👍

[@paulmidgley8040]

Honestly every worker on a low wage should strike and I meen everyone. Bring the country to a halt.

[@Mightypi]

Its been cracking hearing the varius leaders give there thoughts. some very smart compitant ppl that have worked there way up to the top of the unions

[@ginadean499]

the politicians are profiting from our poverty,doesnt it make more sense to educate our children and create more innovative creative jobs which would boost our economy rather than kill it

[@coopsnz1]

More socalism policy will soon kill it

[@ginadean499]

@@coopsnz1 aw,poor you,you really dont have the capacity to understand do you

[@pauleaton3578]

100% Agree with you. Solidarity

[@_Mike.85]

oh the Tories certainly understand solidarity... All their actions so far have shown complete solidarity with their own class and interests.

[@valerierooney1299]

Supporting ALL the UK striker's ✊ Enough is Enough 👍 power to the people for the future of the UK citizens 💖

[@charlielynes]

I do not post this lightly. I do it in order for people to understand where we are in the world right now. I do it in support of humanity, all of us. How many steps are left in our increasingly unequal world. First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the... you all know how authoritarian regimes go. ☮💜♾

[@raymondbyczko]

I love it... "the government are the weirdos".... I support the striking workers in the UK.

[@kaz555]

Solidarity, enough is enough

[@craigfenton3251]

This woman is on it!

[@BOZ_11]

Workers of the world, unite

[@LarryRevell]

Do we even need a prime minister, might fix the issue ngl

[@andrewneil6027]

Having one got us this far 🤣🤣🤣🤪

[@merrickreckons]

@@andrewneil6027 Working people putting in graft got us this far Andrew! ✊

[@marksargent2440]

I was at our local hospital the other day on a board near the canteen was a poster saying if you want to get paid so and so extra join us as we supply drs nurses via our agency come and join us

[@calicokittenproductions591]

Disgusting 😡😡😡

[@DevilbyMoonlight]

One of the Richest country in the world, and people are treated like this? this is done by design, and where this is happening in the developed world is where the governments are in the same club... the WEF, who's own agenda is we will own nothing and be happy...

[@BanterRanterr]

It was one of the worst reforms our model is broken 💔 😢 Councils, Public utilities Education or Army cannot be run like for profit company 😔

[@IndigoIndustrial]

A) She's not a "union boss" because a "boss" can't be unelected. She's the General Secretaru of UCU. B) Compare what she's saying to what the current ministers say in interviews. There's no evasion, no condescension and no waffle. C) She's part of the reason I've been standing on a freezing cold picket at my workplace, striking for better pay, pension and working conditions; that's leadership.

[@allip4226]

Solidarity to the university staff and all striking workers across the UK. #EnoughIsEnough

[@regoftherovers7175]

Up the Unions!!!!!!!

[@brianahern3978]

its time for a general strike or for the government listen to the people or resign and hopefully get politicians who can understand and do the right thing for the uk 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👍

[@astropower6384]

MPs should earn average uk pay not a penny more

[@nedludd3641]

Good. Way too many courses.

[@derekwhite2929]

Don't do pubs or drink & haven't for nearly two decades due to serious liver issues & as dependent as I am now for health care, the privatisation of the health service is literally costing my life!

[@vek679]

I hate the term union boss. It should be a leader someone who is voted into that position. I’m pretty sure bosses aren’t voted in by their employees.

[@IndigoIndustrial]

Jo sometimes makes that point.

[@no.6284]

where's the £70Bil figure from?

[@onx99]

Well done Tory party. Poverty will be your legacy.

[@stanwilson8089]

Smart girl,all absolutely true

[@dibble2005]

The point she mentions about a university who outsourced all the cleaning staff who were woman so that they close the gender pay gap?? This is the most insidious move I have ever heard and that university should be investigated. She should have named it. The sooner people start exposing this stuff the better.

[@verdebritanica]

I resigned as a university lecturer over tuition fees in 2011. Nobody followed me, nobody supported me. It was obvious that privatisation would kill tertiary education.

[@razkhan2958]

Yes of course? People are fighting strike get a good pay

[@JP-sm4cs]

Where is Unite and UNISON in all this? Why are they not defending the right to strike?

[@karlyoung6289]

We should all be on the streets, just like the French.

[@danh5637]

average uni lecturer salary is £45,000

[@Kwirks]

The day we see MP's voting to take industrial action is the day I look forward to, it will be the realisation that they have had their pay held back for at least 10yrs until the average wage has caught up with them. But that day won't happen, will it? #GTTO #EnoughIsEnough #NHSpay15 #CorruptTories #Strikes

[@stewartclarke690]

I love how they say working people like its more wrong then when it was just unemployed people who used food banks.

[@JokeShinet]

I always wondered when UK will Collapse due to their unsuitable behaviour

[@paul8161]

If you outsource you create massive wealth for the company's involved and it would probably go to the government in some form..possible back handers or tax from the company involved..well said for your thoughts on a government on the ropes not caring about the public.

[@aspetm3846]

The way which British governors are ruling Britain same as Islamic regime of Iran.

[@terminusest9083]

Teach real subjects, problem solved. I suspect there are no professors teaching doctors or lawyers that are struggling. You're contracts are flimsy because your sector is flimsy.

[@marcusavey8529]

who remembers when tony blair triples student loans after promisiing to not touch them?

[@marcusavey8529]

@Kent cyclist they all do it, not like any of you can remember though, less than 5 years, is your memory span,

[@LimeyRedneck]

✊🤠💜

[@anonomous8719]

Privatise universities

[@michaelk.jensen1611]

@left_blank No thanks, we dont necessarily know what degrees we need in the future, and we will stop human progress and just be an employee trainer for companies, that is horrifyingly unambitious! And not what a university should be, i think people creating the curriciulum for universities are the most knowledgeable and in the best position and instead we would have the public and politicians decide what is good or not, everything that becomes politically contested risks being taken of and our knowledge and human progress would suffer. I bet that a lot of history courses would be eradicated just because the contentious, we already see people disparingly talking about womens studies and gender studies and also many more soft science topics, by people that hasnt read a line of it but has seen a few youtube videos about it. Women and Mens history is one of the most significant cultural expressions in society, but we shouldnt have people looking in to it.? Do you or these people know a single line of it. NO they don't. Philosophy is taken away, we had one obligatory course at my first education as an engineer, and i feel that is a huge lapse that we no longer have that, there so much inspiration in that field in how to think about things and i think we should introduce that again. (I mentioned some of the fields that i heard people talk about most disparagingly without knowing a cent of what it contains)

[@michaelk.jensen1611]

@left_blank yeah that would be single persons doing some work that will down out instead of we as a society standing for progress. To bad you only think of one type of value in there here and now and don't like to be in an innovating society. We support those things that are not popular right now with the things that are easy and and earns a lot of money, you call it in demand to try and day that is an absolutely positive word that we should derive and base our decisions on, we will not progress much if we only focus on what is the rage, the hype in demand right now. That now how you drive a diverse interesting innovating society. That's just consumerism uber alles. Where new ideas are taking very long to be researched and looked into. It's and utterly poor and destute way to build our society. And also makes it slower to move to new things because people are afraid to let go of what is the current driver o growth amd will try to keep that demand high "artificially ".

[@michaelk.jensen1611]

@left_blank no the poor is thay because of exploitation and the taking away of abundance of resources, not just a lot but resources are actually stripped away making even more poor people, a pipeline of wealth is extracted not just away from people but whole communities.l making it harder to prosper for people in whole regions. When there is poor people and we fix the system to be less exploitable there are fewer poor people. When your enterprise costs others in form of resources, money and health so much that they are more destitute you are not productive, you are extractive. With systems in place there are less poor people more people being productive more people you can make agreements with. Your idea sound like a 3. World country emerging I don't know why you would put that forward as something to strive for. For prejudice of poor people sounds an awful lot like people talk about people in lower castes in cast based societies. We know how damaging that is. Is that what modern capitalism is to you or modern conservative libertarianism?

[@michaelk.jensen1611]

@left_blank are you saying the tories are implementing and using left wing policies?

[@michaelk.jensen1611]

@left_blank OK I believe you are serious wrong and we have tons of data from a massive amount of countries that are highly productive. So in my mind you are extremely and obviously wrong by even the most immediate glance. But how would you change it to make it a good system a what is a good system to you? And I must admit I'm almost afraid to hear it " 😬

[@colinwishbone4437]

Yes I've been to houses in receipt of food bank produce, these supposedl. P oor people are far from poor .the amount of tin and bottled food was enough for weeks. Why?because its free and greed was evident.

[@b62boom1]

Pipe down Baron Von Gammonly Tory, and learn English.Who do you think believes your lies?

[@eddjordan2399]

Discussing. The government should be ashamed.

[@ashleygraham8781]

Oh. That's a pity.