People Before Profit Councillor Shaun Harkin joined striking North West Regional College lecturers and staff on the Strand Road campus picket line today.
Following an earlier week long strike, UCU members have been striking one day a week.
Said the PBP Foyleside councillor: “Staff at the North West Regional College and at all the Further Education colleges deliver a vital service.
“They deserve to be properly paid and respected for what they do.
“Intransigence by employers and Stormont officials is hurting college staff and the education of students.
“Instead of listening to staff concerns and demands, employers cynically threatened redundancies during the strike.
“When you take on board more than a decade of enforced pay cuts and spiralling cost of living pressures, the demands being made for better pay are modest.
“Employers and Department for the Economy representatives need to understand staff and UCU branch resolve is extremely strong.
“There is widespread discontent at the Tories, Stormont and companies posting record profits for savage cuts and low pay.
“This is a battle over how wealth is distributed and more and more groups of workers are entering the field.
“People Before Profit stand fully with strikers and encourage a large solidarity turnout for the NWRC picket line on Friday, October 20.”
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