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@leftacademic As a 'left academic' why on earth was your first impulse to talk to the THE for a hit piece, rather than raise your concerns with the people who passed the motion of your branch (if you're in one)?

@CleanersFor While that's good, I'm not sure the situations are synonymous for a number of reasons.

Quoted here on the issue of whether the UCU can have a lawful 'trade [industrial] dispute' with the Education Secretary; 'UCU warned of court battle if strike against minister progresses: Union threat could prove to be more about ‘propaganda’' timeshighereducation.com/news/ucu-warne…

@leftacademic go on then.

@leftacademic bbc.co.uk/news/education…

@CleanersFor Re your deleted comment on pay review bodies: Custom & practice has established that unions can have lawful disputes with their de jure employers even when pay review bodies that make recommendations and are then accepted by the government of the day are de facto third parties.

@leftacademic But the strategy leans on point b) 'cannot be settled without him exercising a power conferred on him by or under an enactment.' The enactment in this case being HERA 2017.

@CleanersFor There is no easy alternative given the anti-union laws. Section 244(2) of relevant Act (legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/52/…) is about pay review bodies and so difficult to see how this could be used in the way suggested.

@engasal What's also funny is the idea that organising workers in the complex supply chain of weapons manufacturing indulges in old ideas of effective agency, while assuming 1-day external disruptions of these workplaces doesnt also indulge in an old idea of how production is disrupted.

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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 From tomorrow, unionised workers @glasgowfilm will refuse to handle products from companies complicit in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Unfortunately, senior management has failed to heed repeated collective calls from their own workers to cut links with companies such as Barclays and Coca Cola.

Here's a fairly safe wager: mass redundancies in higher education will flood the job market with an oversupply of overqualified workers, accelerating the growth of casual labour recruitment agencies.

@Arbeit_Fish @Permanentkritik But these are specialist argument-makers, nothing about their profession predisposes them to spend time practically changing the world. Doing that would prevent them doing their job, which is research, competently composing arguments and valorising their academic capital etc.

@Arbeit_Fish @Permanentkritik Yeh, alota ppl forgot about this one too. Tbh, I don't really understand why people expect academics to act outwith their class interests. Obviously the changes in the sector mean that for some these class interests are decomposing....

In the end this is a covert charge of bad faith, right? As if you could just be a good faith Marxist, teach your students how the system works and how to change it, and the institution would go “yeah buddy well done thanks for completing the covert mission of the university“

@Arbeit_Fish @Permanentkritik Guy is a walking platitude merchant. It blows my mind how much attention a mildly good-looking male academic can get while spouting the most hackneyed leftoid sentiments.

@Arbeit_Fish @Permanentkritik Yep.

@Permanentkritik @Arbeit_Fish In 2020, PhD students in his depart at Goldsmiths did a wildcat marking boycott. Staff in the dept phoned the PhD students threatening to do the marking if they didn't. Hickel then chaired a meeting in which the Anthrop staff explained their reasoning for sinking the action.

@Arbeit_Fish its also a performative contradiction. how is what this dude doing any different? he won't even point to the good few examples.

Michael Burawoy vient de mourir. Il était depuis longtemps l’un des sociologues marxistes les plus créatifs. Nous lui rendons hommage en republiant cet entretien, dans lequel il revient sur ses travaux les plus marquants et défend une sociologie engagée 👇 contretemps.eu/sociologie-ent…

BREAKING: Republican Congressman Andy Biggs has introduced a bill to abolish OSHA. The entire text of the bill reads "The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 is repealed. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is abolished."

“The Spectacle and the Shop Floor: A Teamster on Elections, Endorsements, and Politics in the Union” is out now in our first issue! Read Jason Flynn’s account of the limits of reading struggles at UPS through the prism of the US presidential election. longhaulmag.com/spectacle-and-…