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To UAL Vice Chancellor James Purnell, Grayson Perry, UAL Chancellor


Show your support for striking UAL lecturers and call for your VC to put pressure on UCEA

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We, as students at UAL, completely support the UCU Strike against pay inequality, job insecurity, rising workloads and wage stagnation. We stand with the UAL staff in the action they have had to resort to.

This action disrupts our education, but is necessary. We want to see better treatment of our tutors and staff, who go above and beyond for us, and provide us with the best education possible, despite precarious and difficult employment circumstances.

Research from UCU shows that pay in the university sector has fallen 17 per cent in real terms in the last ten years, and on average university workers work two days unpaid overtime per week. We want to money we pay to be directed towards our education, and UAL academics and support staff, making casualised staff permanent, rather than funding the UAL's brand image, slick sans-serif font bus adverts, and executive pay (for example, there are sixteen members of staff at UAL who earn over £100,000 a year).

There is no place for racism or sexism at UAL. Any amount of gender and ethnicity pay gap is shameful and should be dealt with immediately and transparently. We as students ask the UAL Vice Chancellor James Purnell to use his influence on UCEA to encourage negotiations with UCU, to provide fair pay and good working conditions at our university.

Sincerely,
Students of UAL

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