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Dear Professor Paul Curran,

As current students, academic service and professional service staff at City, we are all affected by the industrial action.

We are very disappointed to note that City is included in the academic boycott list for punitive behaviour towards academics and staff around the current action ......https://ucustrike.wordpress.com/academic-boycott-list/

The academic boycott states that City University has "indicated it will make deductions for action short of a strike as a way to dissuade staff from taking this action, to minimise disruption. It considers the rescheduling of lectures and covering absent colleagues to be a legal request on staff and that failing to do so will be considered partial performance, warranting deductions of 25% of salary for each day of ASOS and reserving right to deduct 100%."

City has also stated that members of staff may be personally liable for any damages awarded on claims as a result of non- performance of their duties.

We consider City's position unreasonable and request that you reconsider immediately. Other universities, including Sheffield, Southampton and St Andrews have done so, and apologised to academics and staff this week.

We support the striking academics and staff

Many universities including Essex, Loughborough, Glasgow, Warwick, Birkbeck, Goldsmiths, Strathclyde, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have been vocal in supporting the current action.

We hope that City will now join them in seeking meaningful and swift resolution, so we can all continue our studies and work.

Yours,
The undersigned staff and students at City University:

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