From: wdrb-AT-siva.bris.ac.uk
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 14:03:36 GMT
Subject: Re: M-I: uk universities strike?


All 8 unions representing 140,000 workers in 
over 100 UK universities today anounced they had
won ballots for strike action. On 19th November
the whole UK Higher Education system will be shut
down or at least seriously disrupted by trade union
power. The national students body, the National Union of
Students are supporting the days protest because of
shrinking student grants. 

I will try to post more to this list but am up
quite a lot of organising at the moment. I'm
on the national cttee of the university technicians
(MSF union) and on the joint union cttee at Bristol
UNI. The background to the dispute is
spending squeeze, increased workloads, increased
student debt, job insecurity, increased play
of market forces etc etc.

I'll try to answer any questions (although
there must be others on this list involved)
and would appreciate it if this news is passed
to any other relevant lists. 

As you can see i am too excited to type
as coherently as i usually do (which isn't
very) and my ability to make any assesment 
of the importance of this development
has entirely dissapeared....

will brown	Bristol UK


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