I’m Finola, a casual academic in Gender and Cultural Studies. I’m running for Casuals’ Rep because casuals deserve more from a university which simply could not function without us. Casuals deserve better pay, more time, and improved conversion rights. I’ve been Casuals’ Rep before, and have extensive experience campaigning against wage theft, organising forums, rallies and events to raise the profile of the crisis of casualisation, and participating in meetings with management.
I am committed to rank and file union activism: recruiting conversations; supporting peers through case work, and organising local area meetings. I also believe unions have an essential role to play in social justice campaigns, including the struggle for a free Palestine. Being picket captain and striking for nine days last bargaining round brought home to me the fact that it is we staff – academic, professional; permanent and precarious – who have the power to make the university the educational institution for public good it should be.
I’m proud to be running with Rank And File Action (RAFA rafausyd.com). We’re a group of union activists who know the importance of industrial militancy, and the power of non-sectarian, member-led unionism
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