{"id":31800,"date":"2022-06-26T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T07:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/university-staff-who-can-t-afford-to-eat-ask-for-campus-food-banks"},"modified":"2022-06-26T07:00:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T07:00:38","slug":"university-staff-who-can-t-afford-to-eat-ask-for-campus-food-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/university-staff-who-can-t-afford-to-eat-ask-for-campus-food-banks","title":{"rendered":"University staff who can&#8217;t afford to eat ask for campus food banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff are asking universities to set up food banks because they are struggling with rising bills and say they cannot afford to eat properly. As food and energy prices rise , the University and College Union says young academics teaching on casual contracts and low-paid support workers such as porters and cleaners are finding themselves on the breadline. Some staff members at Leeds, a member of the Russell Group of leading universities, said they couldn&#8217;t afford adequate meals and called for a staff food bank on an anonymous message board last month. The online message board, seen by the Observer , was set up by students who occupied university buildings to protest at low staff pay. One staff member wrote: &#8220;Another morning where I wake up hungry because I couldn&#8217;t eat enough last night.&#8221; They added that they had survived on two or three meals of plain rice a day during the pandemic. A second anonymous university worker said: &#8220;This<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young academics and support workers are on the breadline as the cost of living crisis bites<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[80,177,96,368,55],"class_list":["post-31800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-advocacy","tag-colleges","tag-education","tag-food-bank","tag-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}