[DEBATE] : Fwd: Wits staff - petition in support of UKZN strikers

[Richard Pithouse]

http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs

>>> "Lucien van der Walt" <vanderwaltl at social.wits.ac.za> 02/16/06 12:47 PM >>>


We would like to send our best wishes to the unions and the strikers and the students at 
the University of KwaZulu-Natal, who embarked upon industrial action from Monday the 6 February 2006. 

Your struggle against neoliberal restructuring and authoritarian management is an inspiration to us all, faced by the uncertain future at the University of the Witwatersrand, itself starting a new cycle of restructuring. The previous Wits 2001 restructuring cost the jobs of 600 support workers, and led directly to a wave of quiet cuts in academic jobs, through post freezing, early retirements, and  mergers.

It is through making our voices heard that staff can take control of their lives, and replace the dismal ethic of competition and suspicion with the wide horizons of solidarity and self-activity.

In solidarity,

Shireen Ally (Sociology), Michele Berger (Centre for Education Policy Development), Andries Bezuidenhout (Sociology of Work Unit), Gila Carter (Sociology), Susan Chemaly (Pharmacy & Pharmacology), Fassil Demissie DePaul University), Belinda Dodson (Geography, University of Western Ontario), Khayaat Fakier (Sociology of Work Unit), Pamela Gupta (Anthropology)
Bridget Kenny (Sociology), Hannah le Roux (Architecture and Planning), Judy Mafika (Sociology), Zodwa Mbebe (Sociology), Shereen Mills (Centre for Applied Legal Studies), 
Lwazi Mjiyako (African Languages), David Monyae (International Relations), Noor Nieftagodien (History Workshop), Devan Pillay (Sociology), Meenal Shrivastava (International Relations), Paul Stewart (Sociology), Tristen Taylor, Nicole Ulrich (History Workshop), Lucien van der Walt (Sociology), Salim Vally (Education Policy Unit), Alex Welte (Computational and Applied Mathematics)



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