>Dear Friend, > >We would like to draw your attention to a campaign that has >recently been launched at the University of Manchester, UK. > >Teaching assistants at the university are casually >employed with no contract, terms and conditions, poor >resources and on very different rates of pay depending >on the department they work in. > >We have set up a 'Justice for Teaching Assistants' >campaign to resolve these issues. More details about >the campaign can be found on our new website. > >http://members.aol.com/manuniteachers > >Please can we encourage you to visit this website and >sign the cyber-petition? Recently, we have been put >under an unacceptable amount of pressure by university >management (via personnel) and we are very keen to >ensure that our campaign receives significant and wide- >ranging support. > >Thank you in anticipation of your backing, > >Justice for Teaching Assistants Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine