Tag: picket lines

With University Staff Forced to Act like Border Guards, Striking Lecturers Must Show Solidarity with Yarl’s Wood
UCU picketers must act in solidarity with hunger strikers in Yarl's Wood because their struggles are intrinsically linked. The inhumane border control system that makes international students fear failing to meet their visa requirements and puts the unwanted duty of immigration policing on to university staff, also creates detention centres.
Support the UCU Strike

Today was the first of fourteen days of strike action by the University and Colleges Union (UCU) over proposed 40% cuts to the USS pensions scheme. 61 campuses are taking part in the largest strike action in UK Higher education history. Callum Cant went to the picket lines to find out more.