Picket

Today was the first day that we've been able to join the strike over pensions that colleagues in other universities began two weeks ago ( a product of narrowly missing the required 50% membership participation threshold in the first ballot). We're currently scheduled to be out Tues-Thurs this week and the whole of next week. The scale of this action is unprecedented in my thirty years of working in universities, reflecting the seriousness of what has been done to our pensions.

I joined colleagues on the picket line, where we received widespread support from our students and from the city at large. We go again tomorrow.

You can view aggregated national social media coverage of the strike here.