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UK University Strike: Pensions, Pay and Precarity

Posted on December 8, 2019February 23, 2020by Richard Budd

Colleagues outside UK may have noticed, on social media or elsewhere, that a significant number of UK staff, both academic and administrative, have been on strike for the past couple of weeks. Those not so familiar with recent […]

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