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These two issues saw our university academic staff on the picket lines fighting for their rights, but also fighting for the future of Higher Education. Our students have voted to support this action and it is now Students' Union policy to support UCU's strikes. Warwick has a long history of staff and student solidarity, which we displayed so well during the last set of UCU strikes in We must remember that we are a university community and there is power in our collaboration.

Their working conditions are our learning conditions and we will only see real change to Higher Education when we work together. We understand that these strikes can be inconvenient and as students, you may be angry that you are missing your education.

What is important however, is to channel your anger in the right direction. You can contact our Student Visa team for any other questions you may have. If you have queries about a specific course, you should contact the relevant School Office in the first instance. General queries should be directed to academicservices abdn.

Kind regards Ruth Professor Ruth Taylor. How long will the Strike last? How will I know if my classes have been cancelled? Am I expected to attend classes on strike days? Will all staff be involved in the strike? What will happen if my lecture is cancelled as a result of the strike?

What will happen if my tutorial or laboratory class is cancelled as a result of the strike? Will submission deadlines for in-course assessments be changed due to the industrial action? What impact will missed teaching have on the assessments for my course? How will this affect my marks? Will I be able to appeal if I have not had feedback on course work before taking my examinations?

Strikes for a lawful object. Economic strikers defined. If the object of a strike is to obtain from the employer some economic concession such as higher wages, shorter hours, or better working conditions, the striking employees are called economic strikers. They retain their status as employees and cannot be discharged, but they can be replaced by their employer. If the employer has hired bona fide permanent replacements who are filling the jobs of the economic strikers when the strikers apply unconditionally to go back to work, the strikers are not entitled to reinstatement at that time.

However, if the strikers do not obtain regular and substantially equivalent employment, they are entitled to be recalled to jobs for which they are qualified when openings in such jobs occur if they, or their bargaining representative, have made an unconditional request for their reinstatement.

Unfair labor practice strikers defined. Employees who strike to protest an unfair labor practice committed by their employer are called unfair labor practice strikers. Such strikers can be neither discharged nor permanently replaced. When the strike ends, unfair labor practice strikers, absent serious misconduct on their part, are entitled to have their jobs back even if employees hired to do their work have to be discharged.

If the Board finds that economic strikers or unfair labor practice strikers who have made an unconditional request for reinstatement have been unlawfully denied reinstatement by their employer, the Board may award such strikers backpay starting at the time they should have been reinstated. Strikes unlawful because of purpose.

A strike may be unlawful because an object, or purpose, of the strike is unlawful. A strike in support of a union unfair labor practice, or one that would cause an employer to commit an unfair labor practice, may be a strike for an unlawful object. Again, this strike has been called by UCU and will take place on the following dates: Thursday 20, and Friday 21 February Monday 24, Tuesday 25, and Wednesday 26 February Monday 2, Tuesday 3, Wednesday 4, and Thursday 5 March Monday 9, Tuesday 10, Wednesday 11, Thursday 12, and Friday 13 March We are disappointed that UCU has taken this decision given that significant progress had been made with talks to try to bring the dispute to an end.

Topics include: Questions about why the strike is happening Questions about strike days including picket lines Questions about the impact of the strike on your academic work Questions about where to go for further information, support, or to make a complaint Questions about why the strike is happening The strikes are about two on-going national disputes — one is around pay and conditions and the other is about changes to the USS pension scheme — both of which can only be settled at national level, which means that individual universities like ours have little or no local influence on the outcomes.

Our position at Birmingham In line with other universities, at Birmingham we want to provide a work environment where all people feel valued and are treated fairly and with respect. Rallies will be held on the following days: Thursday 20 February, At the current time we do not know which individual staff members will take direct strike action.

Your lecturer might tell you in advance that they either will or will not be teaching on a strike day but the legal position is that they are not obliged to tell the University in advance.

This means that you may not find out about any cancellations until the day the session is due to take place. The University will make every effort to make alternative arrangements for any cancelled events, including lectures, seminars, individual appointments, lab sessions etc.

This might include scheduling additional sessions at other times and making supporting materials available that you can review through Canvas. This will help to ensure that you do not miss any of the essential content for your course. If you have any specific concerns about particularly important laboratory work or other time-sensitive activities, then you should contact your Head of School. Once the strike action has ended, Heads of School will ask all lecturers to prioritise the recovery of teaching above all their other normal activities.

Teaching will be recovered in a variety of ways as appropriate to the discipline, the amount to be recovered and the timing of assessments.

Your academic School will be providing details once they have more information about which students have been affected. Some international students are required to have their attendance and engagement monitored as part of their visa conditions.

Do not worry. You should always plan to attend every scheduled session and any specific check-ins but if any of these are cancelled, we will make alternative arrangements to make sure your attendance record is kept up to date and there is no impact on your visa conditions.

We will work very hard to ensure that any disruption does not adversely affect your completion or graduation. We will closely monitor the impact of strike action across modules and programmes and we will ensure that students are not disadvantaged in pursuit of their postgraduate studies.

For all students, at any level, there are specific mitigating actions we can take within our regulations and under our emergency powers to ensure the successful completion of your degree. If you do have any specific concerns about the progress of your studies you should contact your Head of School in the first instance. If you are scheduled to have a supervisory meeting over the duration of the strike, some or all of your supervisory team may not attend, and you may not receive advance warning of this.

In such an event, please do not worry about compliance with monthly supervision forms GRS2 or about the underlying Tier 4 visa monitoring. Our records will note that your supervisor was striking, and that the absence of the meeting was beyond your control. It would be a good idea in these circumstances to email your supervisors and request a new meeting date be mindful that they may not reply until after the strike action has ended , and to contact your School or Department administrator to let them know that a meeting has been missed.

If you have any questions or concerns in the meantime, staff at the University Graduate School will be here to help. They can be contacted either face to face on weekdays between and by visiting Westmere, or by email graduateschool contacts.

You can contact staff as you would normally do, although for staff taking strike action there may be a delay in them responding to you. If you have an urgent academic query you can always contact your Department or School office. College of Arts and Law Calesd01 contacts. Your wellbeing The Guild of Students also operates an independent advice service. Further information about the complaints process We are very sorry that you may experience some disruption during the strike period.