We are from the University Group Independent Left List. We have also recognized the need for radical reductions in working hours and have joined the league with pleasure.
In Kassel’s university context there is currently an increase in public visible organizing of wage dependend employees. These labor struggles should be supported.
It is important to us that wage labor is also problematized within academic staff. Here, too, the working day would have to be radically shortened – and not just on paper.
Of course, it is all about acute issues such as fighting temporary jobs and addressing holiday entitlements, but it’s also a lot about unpaid overtime on the one hand and job cuts on the other – absurdities of the capitalist reality.
We want to end now already, but not without thanking our voters for the 3 re-won seats in the students’ parliament that you brought us this week. Thank you all, have fun and enjoy your picnic today!
