Strike action The 10 November demonstration kick-started the biggest student revolt since the late 1960s. It also inspired the Universities and Colleges Union to ballot for strike action over jobs, pay and pensions. Mark Bergfeld from the Education Activist Network reports on the strike. At first sight, the UCU strike may have seemed very ‘economistic’ […]
Colleges Union
Lines in the campus sand: lecturers across picket lines
Crossing a Picket Lines In Edition Zero of The Paper, Morten Paul asked ‘what do academics do, when they go on strike?’. The answer offered by one of his professors was that ‘they use the time to work on their research’. The answer offered by other academics, it seems, is that they cross picket lines, […]