New mood in Further Education
Further Education workers in the University and College Union (UCU) are striking across the country, demanding a decent pay increase. A UCU activist at an FE college group in London spoke to Solidarity about the dispute. Our college group is made up of multiple sites; we voted for 10 days of strike across our group, the biggest strike we've ever had. All but one of the sites is involved. There's an ebuillient mood around the strikes. We're organising bigger picket lines than we've ever seen before, with many workers joining pickets for the first time. We've had good support from the local...