See below for a collection of articles and messages of solidarity for the joint UCU/Unison strike action at London Met on 15th and 16th October 2009 in protest at redundancies and further cuts to student services.
East London Advertiser...
Islington Gazette...
Socialist Worker...
Socialist Party...
Tower Hamlets Council...
Education Solidarity Network...
UCU...
International support from the Canadian Association of University Teachers, and a link to the copy of the letter sent by CAUT to the London Met Vice-Chancellor, Alfred Morris...
For more individual messages of support, see our Messages of Support page...
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Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Saturday, 17 October 2009
More photos, reports and videos of Oct 15th-16th strike
Staff and students on strike at London Met University, 15th-16th Oct in protest against massive job cuts. Read our report here, and see other press articles here, here, here and here. See more photos by clicking on the link 'Read the full post with comments', and more photos here and here. Also, watch videos of the rally held on Thursday here, and on Friday here and here. Guy Smallman's Photos can be seen here.
More to come. Please send us your reports, videos or photos of the strike to:
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Videos: rally, Thursday 15th Oct
Tina, London Met Student
See more speeches at rally by clicking on the link 'Read the full post with comments' (below).
Max Watson, London Met UNISON
Kay Dudman, London Met UCU
Megan Redmond, London Met UNISON
Claire Locke, London Met Student
Cliff Snaith, London Met UCU (pt1)
Cliff Snaith, London Met UCU (pt2)
Cliff Snaith, London Met UCU (pt3)
Alisdair Ross, London Met UCU
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London Met staff walk out
Staff at London Metropolitan University in Tower Hamlets have begun two days of strike action against cuts and redundancies.
The action follows a strike in July and other protests by staff and students against the cutbacks ordered by the university’s authorities
Lecturers, represented by the Universities and Colleges Union, and non-teaching staff, represented by Unison are on strike until Friday 16th October.
The ongoing campaign by staff and students at LMU began last year when university management announced 550 redundancies and closures. The cuts are being made to pay for a £38 million “claw back” of funds by the Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE). The “claw back” was announced by the funding council last December when it discovered misreporting by LMU of student drop outs had led to a £58 million overpayment.
Read the full article here (East London Lines).
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LONDON MET UNIVERSITY STRIKE ACTION
OVER 100 staff, students and lecturers rallied outside London Met University yesterday lunchtime, to vow to halt the wave of hundreds of sackings taking place at the institution.Students eagerly took leaflets from pickets and joined the rally.
Two sites of the university were shut down by the support of staff and students for the 48-hour strike by Unison and the UCU that concludes today.
Naomi Bicharri, a business student, told News Line: ‘I don’t agree with the cuts and I feel all students should have equal opportunities to go to university.
Richard Cryan, a Unison library assistant, said: ‘We’re striking to save jobs and save the university.
‘What we’re hearing is the sector as a whole is facing cuts. But it is not the time to be cutting education.
Read the rest here (WRP).
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