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Hunt crosses picket line — to lecture on Marx
Shadow education secretary snubbed academic strike at London's Queen Mary University
Labour shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt shocked striking university workers yesterday by crossing their picket line — to teach students about Marx and Engels.
Mr Hunt “hurried” past members of academics’ union UCU at Queen Mary University of London who were taking part in national dispute against years of pay cuts.
Most strikers joined two-hour walkouts between 9am and 11am, but lecturers at Queen Mary and 11 other institutions stayed out all day because bosses docked them a full day’s pay for a short strike last week.
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