YUSU IS preparing to fight against the axing of 24-hour portering, Vision can reveal.
Students will next week stay up over night in Derwent porters’ lodge to emphasise the importance of the role. YUSU are hoping to show their resentment over the Uni’s harsh cut backs to student services.
The Union slammed University cuts in a UGM motion yesterday: “The University does not place as much value on the role of college porters as the students at the University.” It adds: “any potential closures of porters lodges, coupled alongside the recent bar closures, could result in irreparable damage to the college system… the cuts in facilities, including portering, could have a negative impact on future admissions.”
The proposal was seconded by Derwent JCRC who are likely to play an important role in the campaign.
However, many porters believe it is too late to stop the current cut backs. One porter told Vision: “The people at Heslington Hall, they don’t listen to us and they don’t tell us what is going on. They are not interested in students and they are not interested in porters.”
“The bosses have forgotten that this is a university. It’s getting to a stage where students won’t be welcome here at all!”
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