Asking lecturers why they're on strike 

they are not working class. They are university educated middle class and get paid just fine. Some people are living on 77£ a week and these guys want to make everything more expensive.

@@SoSo-li6dn,really? Do you want us to go back in time and live in misery?

@@longnoseboi You think a university lecturer is working class? You're fucking mental

@@longnoseboi I agree that this is the only definition of 'working class' that makes sense in our times, although it's not universally accepted.

@@SoSo-li6dn Nobody with a (legal) job in the UK is earning £77 a week.

How comes??

@@poggybiscuit862 Because it means the working class is becoming political and that is when change happens. The last time the UK had political working-class companies built homes, workers had good pension schemes and apprenticeships were common. The 90% of people can't be apart of the 10% wealthiest people but the 90% when organised can ensure that the 10% who own 95% of the wealth put in their fair share by spending it within the economy instead of hoarding it by buying up assets (like houses) or taking it overseas. We need wealth to circulate but the rich don't do that without challenge, since 2008 the GDP of the UK grew but wages didn't, which means we're making more and not circulating it within the population. Because this wealth isn't in circulation the government can't raise taxes to tackle a crisis and so they cut vital services and postpone wage raises, an incompetent government is one that is rich, disconnected from real issues and has no pressure from working people to do the right thing. We need to make them do the right thing.

@@UkSapyy I will give you a percentage, raise the cost of uni by 10% and students pay 10% more.

Exactly.

@@UkSapyy thanks

I’m in support as well, we save their wages whilst these “woke” Leftists are on strike, no one cares so let them stay permanently on strike.

@@thelimey351 "No one cares," have you seen the state of the education system? Millions of people care, they care so much.

@@_vallee_5190 What I'm saying is that the "woke" environment that Universities promote now is so bad that they offer very little positives & a massive amount of negatives to society - the average person doesn't want to pay for this bullsh|t...

And MPs…

It’s not about “seeing” lecturers as talents because in a consumer capitalist society the bankers are the talent. All of these people complaining about “working conditions” are wearing clothes made by children. They people are just soldiers for the system they don’t care about the world or anyone they just want to work less and earn more for it… As If it’s an idea that no one else has. I understand I have no idea really about any of this, but for me it’s just painful seeing people so angry but so desperate. Just stop paying your taxes. Start robbing from supermarkets. Simple.

@@creativeamerican8811 What are you talking about? I can't even comprehend what exactly you are making reference to. What has cloths made by kids got to do with workers asking for better pay. Of you do not have any constructive argument, must you respond?

This country was in a great place under Blair.

@@Believe-you-me- lol, I defend Blair on the economy as he reduced our debt to GDP by 4% before the crisis. I defend the PFIs in the sense that the tories ignored the cap, increased the duration and then added PFI2. But I left Labour when Blair dropped clause 4 and he is the reason the Overton window has shifted so far to the right in Britain...

@@Believe-you-me- PS anyone who takes bribes from S.Arabia to cover up their genocide in Yemen on the international stage is not worthy of respect in any form.

Corbyn in a fucking legend and it’s disgusting the way he’s been treated by Labour

you can see why they couldnt let him be PM. Even at his most milquetoast he was too much of a threat to status quo

People are waking up at last, starting to do what their parents and maybe grandparents did.

If only

What? Full grants. 5% of the population entering university degrees. Degrees of quality not quantity. Bring back the seventies and before!

No…I lived through that time at school and uni and this is a hell of a lot worse…. Decades of mismanagement, underfunding and downgrading of the NHS and education by the tories and here we are

Yeah, essentially saying “stop providing good teaching; you’re making the rest of us look bad”

@@MartinParnham but not all academics are teachers, many of them seek the role because they're researchers - sounds to me that was the case of a poor manager (and it sounds like a sociology one based on her anecdote). MOST jobs have poor managers. There are other better examples of why HE is on a knife-edge, her's was not great.

Google the relevant local union?

@@Rhythm24inch good answer Simon

@@tomfinney3416 thanks, I thought of it all by myself

@@Rhythm24inch 😆

Are you speaking to those in private school?

Tuition far exceed what we are paid for. If tuitions go up 10fold our salaries won't change one bit. Same with students intake hundreds stacked in class but same amount of people teaching them. Get your fact straight

@@caterpillaralice labour is by far the biggest cost of running anything. You want strikes? Ok that's fine, but I don't want to be paying more for good and services and that's what will happen. See you in a year when inflation hits 25%

Problem is, if the government were actually on the side of workers there wouldn't be strikes. Strikes are the end result of mismanagement and neglect and when it comes to the public sector, that mismanagement and neglect is that of the government. And when it is a Tory government like the current one, it is also deliberate.

the Westminster spin monster is an incredible feat of social engineering. The ability to make people think that a minor inconvenience or small delay in their instant gratification lifestyle is more valuable than the safe, secure, life of the workers they rely on is truly astounding.

All super good if you go private

What do you think academics should be paid, and what do you think we are paid?

@@RaRa-eu9mw about the same as a head of year in a secondary school.

@@mattybthecatalist8991 I'm a maths lecturer. I've been published numerous times and lecture undergrads and postgrads, as well as conducting research and supervising research projects. How much, specifically, do you think I should get paid for this, and how much do you think I currently get paid for this?

@Supercollider Sherlock, I've seen the private schools becoming a thing in UK now you are telling me is bonkers, if you are against state school just f say it

@Supercollider so you don't see a cycle that those students will become teacher's themselves 🧐 and that what you just said dosent have a analogy of further future.

That’s the issue behind this because people think a degree is essential and an entitlement. Change minds to change conditions in universities. Too many pointless degrees, particularly sociology, which witty graffiti artists demeaned with “Take one sociology degree here” above the toilet roll holder in my university. Neoliberalism started in the university sector. The insanity of degree entitlement and strained staff who can’t see the idiocy of that ideology are beating the cost of their lunatic fringe positions.

Aren’t you the lucky one…

@@MartinParnham I bloody am 😊

So you’re in heat or eat territory and now appreciate true poverty rather than some ideological contextual illusion academics create about it.

UCU colours?

Was plenty of money to give away in phony covid contracts though...

@@shady2322 Someone is going to pay for the whole covid fiasco eventually. Time is a great leveler.

now that is some fake news

A shit lot more than you or I

One I know can't strike because it'll fuck his pay to the point that he can't live. Not that all get paid the same, but the fact that they're the primary contributors to the actual function of Uni and they need to strike when Vice Chancellors are getting like - and this is a modest estimation - £100,000+ a year? It's pretty fucked.

@@mnj640 Exactly, why are they striking? All I got from this video was how someone seems to think a Marxist Democracy exists 😂

@@alphasword5541 if one days pay is enough to take you over the edge (when he probably earns over 40k) then perhaps he’s doing something wrong

Maybe professors or deans earn a lot. I work on fixed term paid a misery, struggling to get to end of them while working on weekends. Time with my family reduced significantly though I still manage to do all housework by working on students essays at night. Is that ok? Am I allowed to strike or should I be homeless or on benefits to exercise my right to protest?

And by the looks of the interviewees they’re academic staff. Why? We have massive student degree numbers so where are our merited ones to teach? Too much quantity too little actual merited quality. So we import it.

@@brynleytalbot778 It's easier and cheaper to import . Just like the NHS

Why do you ask ? I'm sure it is

@@mikeclifford7740 Not one British accent.

@@philjones45 cos people come from all over the world to learn and teach and work there, cos it's supposed to be good?

no ucu are on strike throughout country this rally though is in london

@@Rhythm24inch Is it good? And for whom? Because migration is a zero sum game, someone wins and someone loses.

You know nothing

@@alphasword5541 I seem to know more than you with that answer

@@1LordBudge What an amazingly well argued point.

WoKE CulTUrE Define this, lmao

@@imperialcommisar5279 woke culture is literally anything vaguely not conservative.

*they’re and *their… they might not be English but they probably have a better grasp of the English language than you

They left for here for a reason. If they can't find a good job back home and the conditions are going down the shitter over here, then what other option do they have?

I'm English, and a lecturer, and most of what is said here is absolutely correct.

@@simonfrydrych5291 unfortunately I didn’t have the money that these privileged prat’s had for a education I’ve worked a hard manual job all my live so I guess you are part of that gang and a hard days work you have never been part of and I bet that’s true tell me what you work as ?

go on lets see if you can define english , to me english is born in england , can you prove to me that none of those in the vid were not born here ? no so it must be an ethnicity thing for you then as the definer ie pink skinned, but this may also include other non english , so you really are on a sticky wicket with an ethnicity definition of english perhaps you can hide your stupid post by deleting it , just a tip

Wow did you come up with that by yourself?

Didn't you get an education?

Ignorant.

Nob head

They're paid crap mate. Someone going into the field of with that these professors teach and prepare students for, will earn double what the profs do. It isn't fair or right - they're preparing our future generations. Their pay rises come nowhere near that of the rates of inflation. They can't negotiate like people in the private sector can do, so they have to strike.

What's the alternative, standard of living is going down year after year. The current economy does not work. It creates more billionaires and more food banks. More billionaires = more poor people. This has become strikingly obvious. Wealth for the population is being destroyed not created.

They´re saying they can´t have a "normal" life (surely what the conservatives are all for?) because of the precariousness of their jobs. It´s not infinite money, you berk, it´s a fair wage for fair working hours and conditions.

You first.

Why?

Raise wages by 10% and lay off 10% of the workforce, maths

How very enlightening. Tell us your alternative to higher education and the massive benefit economically and socially that it produces? I'm all ears.