Network for Decent Labour in Academia in Germany

I think these are reasonable demands. I was employed as a undergraduate assistant and of course that includes temporary contracts. It was never my intent to continue that position after graduation but working conditions slowly kept to creep upwards the academic ladder and affected everyone that stayed in academia.

Yeah, you would take that very expensive robot arm from very friendly corporation too if someone offered it... Of course there are dangers that pupils are locked into certain technologies or groomed by recruiters, but on the other hand this may still result in general knowledge. Our comp sci and electrical engineering faculty was often besieged because of issues like this. I think explaining students where things stand is the best approach (the group here is referring to slack channels...).

Some points seems to be over the top. There is a problem with dependence on industry, out of the question, but my least my faculty wasn't patriarchal or against equality. It got the people that applied there. There is no wizard in the attic. When I looked left and right towards my noodle-armed colleagues I was firmly convinced they were making fun of us.

Still, overall these are sensible requests to improve academia.

I sometimes try to understand the issue from an employer's point of view: why should they hire anyone on a permanent contract? I mean, in any field, not specifically in academia.

Sure, you have an interest in keeping the most talented and important employees but I would expect that there is a large belly of mostly replaceable workers in any company of size.

If that is actually true, wouldn't the cost of having to constantly retrain young recruits be offset by the savings you achieve by not keeping those around that have already moved up the salary ladder?