***Register here: http://bit.ly/CUPUW ***
Resources:
Everything can be found here in a google drive folder. Or, see below:
Program - click here to view in your browser, or here for a downloadable PDF
Deep organising for the casualised university by CUPUW
(More detailed) deep organising manual
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On April 9th and 10th, CUPUW will be hosting ‘What Casuals Want: Getting Organised for Bargaining and Beyond’: a national, two-day online summit bringing together casual workers across the higher education sector. This will be an unprecedented meeting, run by casuals, for casuals, to collaborate on an agenda for bargaining and a vision of the higher education sector beyond 2021.
2020 saw casual higher education workers organising to win back pay, and putting the systemic wage theft in our sector in the media spotlight. This year workers are bargaining with universities intent on further austerity in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tens of thousands of workers have already lost their jobs. Casuals need to be well-prepared for bargaining in this context, starting with what we want from our union and our universities.
When
Friday 9th April 2021, 1pm - 5pm
Saturday 10th April 2021, 10am - 3pm
Where
Online - register here
Who should attend
All casual, fixed term and unemployed university workers. Come as you are, or in a team with the rest of your local Casuals Network.
How to get involved
If you’d like to be involved in planning the summit, please email: CUPUW@protonmail.com.
Program
Day 1/Friday 9th
1pm - 1:30pm Casualisation in reality: a very warm welcome
1:30pm - 2:15pm Who's CUPUW and why is she holding a summit?
for casuals, by casuals - why we need autonomous power in our union and universities
2:15pm - 2:45pm break
2:45pm - 3:30pm Deep organising for uni casuals
learn and share tools to build power among casuals, collectively building a toolkit for change
3:30pm - 4:45pm Lessons from the UniMelb wage theft campaign
how did our comrades win their campaign for back-pay, and what can we learn and adapt to our own campuses?
4:45pm - 5pm Wrap up, feedback and discussion of day one
Day 2/Saturday 10th
10am - 11am What do casuals want? Imagining a future on our own terms
how to envision a long-term, ambitious, and viable plan for worker-controlled universities and secure, dignified work
11am - 11:15am break
11:15am - 12:30pm Organising in practice: trying it out
getting our hands dirty, trying out tools that suit our own situation, making solid plans for implementation
12:30pm - 1:30pm break
1:30pm - 2:30pm Bargaining in 2021 and beyond
where casuals fit into enterprise bargaining and how we can exercise our growing power
2:30pm - 3pm Conclusion: Making casualisation redundant
