UK strikes: staff on picket lines ‘fighting for future of HE’

After last year’s walkout over pensions, this year’s action is ‘part of something bigger’, say union members

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November 25, 2019

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November 25, 2019

Anna McKie Jack Grove

Twitter: @jgro_the

UCU strike at Goldsmiths, University of London

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