Analysis: How Striking Lecturers Won Their Students’ Support
by Alessio Koliulis
On the final day of UCU strikes, academic Alessio Koliulis reflects on the rebuilding of staff-student solidarity.
Tag: UCU strikes
Opinion: University Students, Get Your Asses on the Picket Line
by Zac Larkham
The ongoing UCU strikes have had a mixed reception from students. But learning conditions depend on the strikes' success, writes student organiser Zac Larkham.
Opinion: We, Goldsmiths Staff, Are Striking for the Future of Our Universities
by Goldsmiths UCU Finance Working Group
When a new warden was appointed at Goldsmiths in 2019, she promised to continue the university’s ‘progressive’ legacy. Two years later, she faces massive industrial action. A group of striking workers explain.
Art School Strikers Are Turning the Tide on Apathy
by Joe Hayns
Striking art school workers are building new networks of solidarity, defying historically low trade union engagement and a professional self-image that is widely exploited by university bosses.
Why Are University Staff Going on Strike? Here’s What You Need to Know
by Oliver Eagleton
University staff across the UK walk out tomorrow for the first time since March 2018. The strike resumes the struggle over detrimental pension changes, with further demands on casualisation and equal pay.
No Shortcuts: Meet UCU’s Radical New General Secretary
by Craig Gent
"The idea that we just tolerate a managed decline because we can’t expect any better has just been entirely rejected." Jo Grady, an outsider, rank-and-file candidate, has achieved an unprecedented landslide in the UCU general secretary race. Craig Gent caught up with her at the union's annual congress.
Long Read: #OurUCU: The Real Culmination of the UCU’s ‘Turnaround Year’
by Craig Gent
Attempts to avert any discussion of Sally Hunt's leadership of the University and College Union at its annual congress have exposed a schism between two models of trade unionism.
An End in Sight for the Neoliberal University
by Iida Käyhkö and Charlie Macnamara
At University College London, students and lecturers alike have near unanimously passed votes of no confidence in the running of their university. With a nationwide academic strike in full-swing, this could well be the beginning of the end for the neoliberal university project.