So, comrades - as this is what we unionised co-toilers in the dark and satanic mill that is our degree factory University must learn to call each other - we are going to:
- proceed to the next step in arbitration, and
- also take industrial action,
are we? Said industrial action to include not doing any committee work, but not to extend to disrupting actual teaching - and which may extend to a formally-garbed protest march to The Belly of The Beast, aka Bremner.
Oh, there was some wild talk of rolling sit-ins at Bremner, but there was little enthusiasm for this activity. Good thing, too: it would interfere rather in web-surfing and drinking coffee (with Marmitey biscuits), after all!
But seriously now, the VftN Kollectiv as a real collection of people (the Retroid Kollectiv being a loose grouping of characters in one person) is very excited by the new-found inustrial activism of their UCT comrades: why, we should have songs, and take lessons in how to toyi-toyi (arthritic joints allowing), and get T-shirts!
Hasta la victoria siempre, comrades, to take a line from the man with the cigar on the Retroid office wall - who would make a fine T-shirt logo - and we will refer you to a previous Raving for a song.
Viva academics, viva...or as some pedants might have it, "Vivat academia. Vivant professores!" We may even get better paid after all....B-)
05/02/2010, 19:55
Nou HIER'S n'lietjie vir die unie...:-)
http://www.channel24.co.za/Content/Music/Player/760/541eadeee5ee458ba1f5492fbf50b985/29-01-2010-01-13/Koos_Kombuis_-_Die_Groen_Fokkol_Song?trackid=f0d4af2c-fbd5-4116-a9bc-aa10adba4482
06/02/2010, 17:09
Industrial action, how very exciting! With a Strawbs soundtrack, nogal...
T-shirts are always a good thing. The other union - of the subordinate sector - had a very nice one. They could probably pass on the details to get it done quite reasonably.
If you're going to take up toyi-toying, though, I'd suggest getting in some cheerleaders. Those semi-clad nubiles that usually appear on Campus around this time of year, handing out samples to noobs, would probably do the trick.
08/02/2010, 21:35
Well, we SAY industrial action - but it'll probably be a work-to-rule (and the comment was made, "do you think anyone will notice?", to which the answer was "if they don't, we never have to do that stuff again!"), non-compliance with personal evaluations (1x per year per person), and a march to Bremner. With colourful gowns on. With the odd decorous toyi-toyier.