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Visit a picket: week three
This week the Strike Map Team talk to a UCU striker from their picket line in north-west England
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THEY SAY it’s grim up north — but they obviously have never stood on a picket line in Liverpool on a sunny spring day. After rejecting insulting and divisive pay offers the City of Liverpool College UCU branches along with six Further Education (FE) colleges in north-west England took strike action yesterday May 18.
This isn’t the first strike of its kind; unfortunately FE colleges every year force members to take industrial action in the face of pathetic below inflation pay offers. UCU members voted overwhelmingly for strike action last year and they did again this year.
What bad bosses don’t realise is that every time they force this then it just increases the strength of the workers. Nina Doran, UCU secretary to the UCU liaison committee at City of Liverpool College, told us that “the support for action is increasing, despite the anti-trade union actions and intimidating tactics of a leadership who do not listen to UCU members.
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