{"id":380,"date":"2019-10-08T17:26:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T16:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/?p=380"},"modified":"2019-10-08T17:26:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T16:26:23","slug":"degrees-by-deliveroo-be-the-xx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2019\/10\/08\/degrees-by-deliveroo-be-the-xx\/","title":{"rendered":"Degrees by Deliveroo: Be the XX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-369\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/files\/2019\/09\/UCU1-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/files\/2019\/09\/UCU1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/files\/2019\/09\/UCU1.jpg 471w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>About Casualisation<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Around 70% of the 49,000 researchers in higher education are on fixed-term contracts and there are 37,000 teaching staff on fixed-term contracts, the majority of them hourly paid. In addition, there are a further 71,000 teachers employed as \u201catypical academics\u201d who are mostly hourly-paid. These colleagues have job insecurity which results in financial difficulty too, such as inability to obtain a mortgage.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">UCU and other unions are calling on UUK to begin time-limited negotiations to commit to ending the use of zero hours contracts and move towards fractional and\/or open-ended employment contracts for staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">For more information see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucu.org.uk\/media\/10185\/UCUBAN54-HE-pay-claim-2019-20\/pdf\/UCUBAN54.pdf\">Branch Action Notice<\/a>, p. 15.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Kent UCU urges you to vote <b>YES<\/b> to action and <b>YES<\/b> to action short of a strike in both ballots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">TWO BALLOTS \u2022 ONE FUTURE \u2022 BE THE <\/span>XX<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: black;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Sent on behalf of Kent UCU committee &amp; reps<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Casualisation Around 70% of the 49,000 researchers in higher education are on fixed-term contracts and there are 37,000 teaching staff on fixed-term contracts, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2019\/10\/08\/degrees-by-deliveroo-be-the-xx\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39717,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[155769,155770],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39717"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}