If you want, you can also write to [email protected] to find out what steps the university is taking to avoid a dispute. #ucuRISING @SurreyUCU @UCUPostgrads @UCUAnti_Cas

The university ignored our statement but tomorrow, Friday and Wednesday many Postgraduate Students will be joining the picket line on campus. You can bring a homemade sign of support, take some pictures and share them on social media or just come and have a chat!

“the University supports the rights of its colleagues to take industrial action”. @UCUPostgrads @SurreyUCU @Surrey_SLLPGRs @SurreyPGRsinLaw

RESCIND its recent “offer” to PGRs to cover lessons on upcoming strike days, to urgently reach out to PGRs to clarify the actions available to us as teachers and demonstrators, to address low rates of pay and to make good on its assertion that

position many PGRs find themselves in because of insufficient stipend payments, low-pay for teaching and demonstrating, and a lack of additional support from the University during the current cost-of-living crisis. We are therefore calling on the University of Surrey to both

in relation to upcoming strike days has so far been completely ignored by senior management. That the university also feels it appropriate to offer additional (but isolated) pay increases to PGRs to work on strike days is doubly insulting, and exploits the precarious financial

of communication is appropriate (particularly in the absence of any other information) shows a colossal disregard for PGRs and the work they do – both as precariously employed teachers and demonstrators; and as University of Surrey students, whose welfare and mental well-being

have been ignored; and despite the fact that PGRs have yet to receive any kind of formal communication from the university about actions legally and contractually available to us on upcoming strike days. That the university chooses to ignore our concerns and feels that this kind