22 May. The fight is over pay, and lecturers say there is solid support for a strike. People who are not reps were taking away literature and stickers to give out. Lecturers have fallen way behind teachers in terms of pay. We are at least 2,000 a year worse off than teachers, if not more. People know that the current teacher shortage means that people are going into schools and not FE, so it is getting difficult to get new staff in FE colleges.
People know it is easy to get a job at the minute.
Everybody is voting yes. People see Blair and management as the same thing and they are sick with them both in many, many ways-sick of the pressure, sick of the workload, sick of broken promises. These changes would hit the quality of education for the people of Norwich. This both hides the real impact and is a real insult to staff threatened with redundancies. Over 3,000 Norfolk residents have also signed our petition.