We call upon all staff at the University of Sussex who are earning more than £70,000 to take a voluntary 10% pay cut, in order to help protect the welfare of all staff and students at the University.
We are concerned that managements’ recent Proposals involve cut-backs to front-line staff and services, including tutors, lecturers, security personnel, cleaners, porters, catering, Student Advisors, sexual health advisors, IT personnel, technicians, and workers in the Crèche and Nursery.
We are further concerned that, in management’s recent Proposals, some of the lowest paid staff at the University are expected to take significant pay cuts and accept poor working terms.
We care about the quality and future of education at Sussex, and call upon our highest-paid colleagues to accept this pay cut in the spirit of good will for the University community.
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To sign this letter, email education@ussu.sussex.ac.uk with your name and status. Staff names will only be published when they have reached a high number.
Alternately, please leave a comment below with your name and status.
49 responses so far ↓
1 Heather Woodards // Mar 12, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Sign me on it please!
2nd Year UG, Molecular Medicine, School of Life Science.
2 Ciaran Whitehead // Mar 12, 2010 at 5:27 pm
USSU Welfare Officer
3 Joe Sirodcar // Mar 12, 2010 at 5:33 pm
Sign me on it please.
First year, International Relations, School of Global Studies
4 Robin Cowling // Mar 12, 2010 at 5:36 pm
3rd Year, BA History
5 Elizabeth Russell // Mar 12, 2010 at 5:43 pm
2nd year, BA History
6 Jessica Collier // Mar 12, 2010 at 5:54 pm
Signed, Jessica Collier,
Student rep
Physics and astronomy
7 Leah Lee Mooney // Mar 12, 2010 at 6:00 pm
Signed, Leah Lee Mooney, 1st Year Undergrad, Molecular Medicine.
8 Isabelle Anderson // Mar 12, 2010 at 6:28 pm
3rd year, BSc Environmental Science with Development Studies
9 Rosie Fay // Mar 12, 2010 at 6:35 pm
Rosie Fay, 2nd year Sociology and Media
10 Stephanie Dimmock // Mar 12, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Signed, Stephanie Dimmock, 1st year undergraduate, politics and sociology.
11 Mark Jenner // Mar 12, 2010 at 7:36 pm
good work!
12 Katharine Smith // Mar 12, 2010 at 8:43 pm
2nd year undergraduate, English
13 Alastair Cannell // Mar 12, 2010 at 9:29 pm
2nd Year BA Economics
14 Aiyana Cole-Jones // Mar 12, 2010 at 9:29 pm
2nd year psychology undergraduate
15 Benjamin Litherland // Mar 12, 2010 at 10:17 pm
Media and Cultural Studies Master’s Student
16 Josh Hulbert // Mar 12, 2010 at 11:04 pm
3rd year Human Science
and Student Mentor
17 Frederick Mohun Himmelweit // Mar 12, 2010 at 11:28 pm
1st year undergraduate, psychology
18 imogen bell // Mar 12, 2010 at 11:41 pm
signed 3d year IR and Dev student
19 imogen bell // Mar 12, 2010 at 11:42 pm
whoops meant 3rd year
20 Jamie Dennis // Mar 13, 2010 at 1:04 am
3rd Year BA English
21 Emma Kosmin // Mar 13, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Emma Kosmin, Sociology and politics student
22 Hannah Boyd // Mar 13, 2010 at 12:51 pm
Hannah Boyd, 3rd year undergraduate, English
23 Hannah Boyd // Mar 13, 2010 at 12:52 pm
3rd yr English
24 Finlay Kerr // Mar 13, 2010 at 2:42 pm
First year Geography student
25 Elizabeth Gray // Mar 13, 2010 at 7:48 pm
2nd year Psychology undergraduate,
USSU trade staff member
26 Mark Smith // Mar 13, 2010 at 7:51 pm
3rd year Geography undergraduate,
USSU trade staff member
27 Hannah Goreing // Mar 14, 2010 at 12:45 am
Hannah Goreing, 2nd year English Lit BA
28 Cameron Tait // Mar 14, 2010 at 2:40 am
3rd Year English BA
This should only be the start. Brian Cowen took a 20% cut and his ministers 15% when announcing cuts to the Irish public services. It could (should) have been a lot more given the ramifications on the livelihoods of so many.
The management at Sussex, many on salaries of far and above £70k, should, in my opinion, take a far greater paycut than 10% if they have any personal interest in the benefit of the university.
29 No time for complacency « The Plural Progressive // Mar 14, 2010 at 1:52 pm
[...] Fortunately, a new group has been created to address the complacency of Kent Union official bureaucrats, ‘Student Activism against the Biosciences cuts’. The group will endeavour to put forward a plan of action against cuts and redundancies in any department at the University of Kent. It will look to other campuses, such as
30 Jenny Legg // Mar 15, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Sign me on! Please
Life science and BES Rep and 1st yr Ecology and Conservation
31 Leila Simpson // Mar 15, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Leila Simpson, 3rd year Human Sciences student
32 Katie Goodall // Mar 15, 2010 at 9:40 pm
1st year neuroscience!
33 Tabitha Rohrer // Mar 16, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Postgraduate in English
34 Abigail Matson-Phippard // Mar 16, 2010 at 2:02 pm
Abigail Matson-Phippard
2nd year Philosophy and Cognitive Science Ba
35 Bex Yates // Mar 16, 2010 at 3:34 pm
Bex yates
2nd year molecular medicine
36 Claire Edwards // Mar 16, 2010 at 3:54 pm
3rd year BA philosophy
37 Katie Gelbart // Mar 16, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Please sign me up!
School of English, 2nd Year French and Spanish BA
38 Ruth Charnock // Mar 16, 2010 at 6:34 pm
Ruth Charnock DPhil English Literature
39 Hannah Burley // Mar 16, 2010 at 10:11 pm
2nd Year German and Spanish
40 Rebecca Melhuish // Mar 16, 2010 at 10:33 pm
2nd Year BA Development Studies
41 Leon Baruah // Mar 17, 2010 at 12:31 am
DPhil in Astronomy
42 Kimberly Loh // Mar 17, 2010 at 1:38 am
ex-Sussex student
43 Tom hatton // Mar 17, 2010 at 8:41 am
Social worker and sussex graduate.
44 Ben S // Mar 17, 2010 at 9:47 am
I’d also like to see those earning above £40k taking a 5% reduction (and yes, that includes me and other senior lecturers)
45 Julia Bowerman // Mar 17, 2010 at 1:22 pm
Second year student.
46 Grace Mooring // Mar 17, 2010 at 5:42 pm
1st year - Geography and Development
47 Natasha Maslen // Mar 17, 2010 at 7:39 pm
1st year undergraduate, Sociology
48 Rosa Hardt // Mar 21, 2010 at 11:26 am
BSc Neuroscience with Cognitive Science (school of LifeSci),
3rd year
49 William Prothero // Mar 23, 2010 at 5:44 am
William Prothero
1st year Politics with Philosophy
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