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-)
