{"id":350426,"date":"2018-03-02T04:58:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T03:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-university-lecturers-college-staff-and-students-hold-joint-protest-in-london\/"},"modified":"2018-03-02T04:58:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T03:58:06","slug":"uk-university-lecturers-college-staff-and-students-hold-joint-protest-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-university-lecturers-college-staff-and-students-hold-joint-protest-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"UK university lecturers, college staff and students hold joint protest in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>UK university lecturers, college staff and students hold joint protest in London<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    our reporters<br \/>\n    <br \/>1 March 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Around four thousand university lecturers, college staff and students demonstrated in London yesterday. The protest, called by the University and College Union (UCU) was held on the last day of this week\u2019s three-day strike by lecturers against attacks on their pensions by the employers\u2019 body\u2014Universities UK (UUK). The college workers were staging the first day of a two-day strike at 14 Further Education (FE) institutions nationwide in opposition to a derisory one percent pay increase.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageFull\" style=\"width:480px; oveflow:hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/9e996136-fb64-46c7-a207-8478f506568F\/image.jpg?rendition=image480\"  width=\"480\" style=\"width:480px;\" \/><span>Marchers braved the cold and snow in London<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The march, held during a snowstorm and in freezing weather, began at Malet Street before proceeding through central London to a rally at Westminster Central Hall, near Parliament.<\/p>\n<p><em>World Socialist Web Site<\/em> reporters spoke to some of those attending the demonstration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kate<\/strong> is a lecturer at the Institute of the Americas at University College London (UCL). She said, \u201cOne of the main reasons that I\u2019m out on strike is that I am looking towards the future without defined benefits. It means living the last decades of your life with a lot of uncertainty, an inability to plan. It\u2019s also a step towards the individualisation of higher education that I feel strongly to be a collective enterprise at all levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kate explained the impact of the highly causualised Higher Education (HE) sector, saying, \u201cI\u2019m now on a permanent contract two years out of my PhD, but for a lot of my peers it\u2019s very much a case of year to year contracts, term to term. And coming through graduate work now, you look towards the future with a lot of anxiety about the casualisation of your workplace and the increasing disparity between the haves and the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/03\/01\/demo-m01.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 UK university lecturers, college staff and students hold joint protest in London By our reporters 1 March 2018 Around four thousand university lecturers, college staff and students demonstrated in London yesterday. The protest, called by the University and College Union (UCU) was held on the last day of this week\u2019s three-day strike by lecturers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-350426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}