The FACE conference will take place at SOAS in London on Saturday 7 February 2015, and will include discussions and workshops, as well as speakers from a number of local campaigns around the country.
Fighting Against Casualisation in Education
Fighting Against Casualisation in Education will be a conference on 7 February 2015, organised by activists involved in struggles around the country. We aim to bring casualised academic workers together, to discuss and organise for our fight for better labour conditions.
Casualisation in education is a scandal. In HE, 33% of the labour force is on one sort of non-permanent contract or another. Only 51% are on permanent contracts that include both teaching and research. This state of affairs damages the education of our students and puts staff into a situation of poverty and insecurity without basic employment rights. It also harms the opportunities of casualised staff to progress in their careers in line with their counterparts on the national contract. Many of us do—and are expected to—perform a myriad of tasks outside of our contractual obligations, and many are afraid to complain. It is exploitative and we refuse to put up with it.