Join us on the picket lines on Friday 28th June 2019

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UNISON are calling a day of Strike Action on Friday 28th of June 2019, after stunning result in our strike ballot. 79% of those who took part voted for strike action! We are asking all staff not to attend work and to come to our amazing picket lines instead! Students, please join us on the pickets – there will be food, hopefully music, and lively discussions!
We want the University to be a much better place for everyone. Only by sticking together can we send a powerful message to the University Senior management that we will no longer tolerate their mismanagement and impositions of low pay, precarity, widening inequality, and worsening of our working and learning conditions.

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