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Following the institution revealing that it plans to cut at least 52 jobs, staff have organised a three-week walkout over redundancies with students standing in solidarity with them. Casual contracts, precarious employment, and juggling multiple jobs to make ends meet are not phrases instinctively associated with academia. Yet thousands of lecturers, researchers and general staff at British universities are struggling under hourly, pitifully-paid work contracts.