ACG members who work in education have just launched their new "soapbox", Zero
for Conduct, named after an old French film about a rebellion in a school. ----Zero for Conduct aims to promote solidarity among education workers and users. Itis a campaign to be led by workers and students, without hierarchy or mediation.---- Their website has just published its first articles, ‘The Struggle So Far‘and ‘On the Picket Lines‘ both on the UCU strike in higher education. There'll bemore articles to follow soon. ---- In its welcome message, Zero for Conduct says:---- "This is the rebel education worker soapbox. It is intended to provide avoice, a place to share and find information, and an opportunity to organise forall who work in education, whether as a cleaner, catering worker, janitorialstaff, teacher, lecturer, or classroom assistant, in universities, colleges,schools or adult education departments or organisations. We are all at the frontline in making education work."Throughout the pandemic, education management have shown disdain for the workerswho actually make the schools, colleges, universities and other establishmentsrun. Our labour educates the next generation, but our working conditions and paydon't tell us we're valued. Pay has stalled, recruitment decreased, workloadincreased, and our establishments are increasingly run like businesses, with costcutting and the bottom line taking priority, while staff and students are playedoff against each other."With that in mind, we invite students to this soapbox too. Divide and rule hasno place here. To management, students may be the products of the educationfactory, but to us they are human beings with whom we share a responsibility forsolidarity. Respect and solidarity are two-way processes, and they are valued here."Any attack on our working conditions means also a drop in quality for theeducational experience for students. Worker-student solidarity is the way todefend both."To visit Zero for Conduct, go to www.educationworker.wordpress.com/https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2021/12/06/new-education-worker-soapbox-online-now/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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