From: Daniel Todman [d.w.todman@qmul.ac.uk]<\/p>\n
Hello fellow historian,<\/p>\n
I am writing with a School of History specific update about the upcoming industrial action by the Universities and Colleges Union (UCU). You will have received an email about this from the Principal. The university has also produced some FAQs, which you can see\u00a0here.\u00a0<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n The strike dates currently announced are 14-18 February, 21-22 February, 28 Feb-2 March.<\/b><\/p>\n I know any mention of further disruption will be really worrying for you, so in this email I want to give you some more information and reassurance that I hope will help.<\/p>\n You will I am sure have more questions, so on Wednesday 9th<\/sup>\u00a0February 1-1.45 we\u2019ll be holding an open \u2018town-hall\u2019 style meeting for all students on Teams. The link to join is here: Click here to join the meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n Do come along if you can. If you can\u2019t, and there are questions you\u2019d like help with, do pass them on through your course reps. We won\u2019t record the session, but we will keep notes, write up the key points, and distribute them to everyone via email.<\/p>\n The first thing to say is that this is a miserable situation. This is a national dispute between employers and UCU. It is about pensions, pay and conditions, casualisation and pay equality. These are important but complex issues, which helps explain why the two sides disagree about some points so strongly. I know that \u2013 whatever their position on industrial action \u2013 staff in the School of History care about you, our students. Those who go on strike will do so with a heavy heart. No one wants you to be caught in the middle of it.<\/p>\n The second is that the exact effect of the strike is hard to predict. Not all staff in the School are members of UCU, not all members of UCU will strike, and not all of those who do will be on strike for the whole time. Those who are going to strike won\u2019t tell the School beforehand, so neither I nor the School Office will know in advance which modules or seminars are affected. Staff have been asked to tell you, if they feel able to, if they are going to strike. Most normally do. It is fine for you to ask your seminar tutors and module organisers about this.<\/p>\n The third point is that there will be more certainty soon. In about twelve days, at the end of the first planned week of industrial action, we\u2019ll have a much better sense of which modules and seminars are being affected. At that time, we\u2019ll be able to start planning how to minimise the impact on each of you. Exactly how we do that will differ between students: with so much module choice there will be variation between you in terms of how you are affected by the strike. Our key principles will be to make sure that everyone is treated fairly and that your degree result is not adversely affected. Above all, we will keep communicating with you \u2013 in emails like this, through your course reps, and with more \u2018town hall\u2019 meetings.<\/p>\n If you feel you need more help, you can contact the history student support office at history-student-support@qmul.ac.uk<\/a>. You can reach me by email at\u00a0history-head@qmul.ac.uk<\/a>. I will reply to all emails \u2013 though it sometimes takes a bit of time. If you want to be kind, you could write to me on Monday rather than over the weekend. Do let me know if you have more questions or things that we can help with.<\/p>\n Best regards<\/p>\n Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From: Daniel Todman [d.w.todman@qmul.ac.uk] Hello fellow historian, I am writing with a School of History specific update about the upcoming industrial action by the Universities and Colleges Union (UCU). You will have received an email about this from the Principal. The university has also produced some FAQs, which you can see\u00a0here.\u00a0 The strike dates currently […] Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emails"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/student-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/student-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/student-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/student-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/student-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/student-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/student-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/student-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/student-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/student-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}