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The Taliban in Afghanistan are to be taken to the International Court of Justice for gender discrimination by Canada, Australia, Germany and the Netherlands. This is the first time that the ICJ has been used by one country to take another to court over women's rights. Krupa Padhy is joined by the BBC's Chief International Correspondent, Lyse Doucet.Two weeks of paternity leave isn't enough, according to the Dad Shift, a campaign group which is calling for more affordable paternity leave. Last week, they made headlines by attaching life-size model babies in slings to statues of men across London, in a bid to raise awareness of the issue. Research suggests that a third of eligible parents don't take up the two weeks of statutory paid leave. George Gabriel from the Dad Shift; Scott Inglis, a parent and trade union rep for the University and College Union; and Dr Sarah Forbes, Director of the Equal Parenting Project at the University of York, join Krupa to discuss how current policies are working for parents. What would happen if a mysterious woman on a flight began predicting the deaths of her fellow passengers? This is the premise of Australian writer Liane Moriarty's latest book, Here One Moment. Liane joins Krupa to discuss her novels, which include the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Big Little Lies. The classic Levi's 501 jeans have been voted the nation's most iconic fashion piece of all time. Originally patented in 1873, the 501 recently celebrated its 150th year. Second to the jeans came the classic Ralph Lauren polo shirt, ahead of the timeless Chanel little black dress. Joining Krupa to discuss all things jeans is Lauren Cochrane, senior Guardian fashion writer and Hannah Rogers, Assistant Fashion Editor at the Times Presenter: Krupa Padhy Producer: Rebecca Myatt

Rob and Lonzo talk Water Cooler Cheat Sheet and College Union.

Since the end of April, the University and College Union in the UK has been on a marking strike to demand fair pay and working conditions that have deteriorated significantly. This week, we talk to Dr. Lucy Mayblin a Political Sociologist at the University of Sheffield, about what has been happening in UK academia, including how universities are transforming from institutions of public good to private institutions, and where university professors and staff are increasingly being made to act effectively as border guards with international students to create, quite explicitly, a hostile environment.In our conversation, we talk about the rise of neoliberalism in British academia, about how bordering practices are taking hold in UK universities, and ways for academics to take back their time.Related LinksUniversity and College Union Marking and assessment boycott 2023Backgrounder on the Hostile Environment PolicyThanks for listening! Get more information, support the show, and read all the transcripts at academicaunties.com. Get in touch with Academic Aunties on Twitter at @AcademicAuntie or by e-mail at podcast@academicaunties.com.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacyPodsights - https://podsights.com/privacy

Tom McCormack, Past President of St Michael's College Union and principal Tim Kelleher, discuss the deaths of two Leaving Cert students from the school on the Greek island of Ios.

‘Where did all the funds go?' ‘When will the financial audits of Hestia 23' be released?' ‘Why were the t-shirts of poor quality?' All this and more answered in one podcast episode. The most awaited podcast for TKMians is here.

Interviews with organizers, strikers, and faculty participating in the University of California strike, and their counterparts at the University and  College Union strike in the UK give us critical background information on both, talk with us from the front lines, and urge for global strikes for decent wages, strong pensions, and an education that teaches us how to work for a better world.  As you listen to these extended conversations, you will be learn how both strikes respond to precarious labor, casualization, wage discrimination against people of color, women, and people with disabilities, and the ballooning salaries of the administrative class, and how both university systems siphon money meant for education into real estate assets and other "fixes" for capital investment. You will the outraged, but also inspired. To contribute to the UC strikers, use PayPal:  feeducrgradstrikers@gmail.com

Welcome to an episode of ThePicketLinePodcast, as members of the University and College Union join strike action across the sector. We speak to UCU general secretary Jo Grady, and to students and UCU members about today's action. We'll be back on Friday (25/11) with another episode. For more info about the UCU campaign, go to UCU.org.uk Solidarity, and thanks for listening

Join Haymarket and Spectre Journal for a launch of Kim Moody's new book, Breaking the Impasse. Unlike most countries, the US has no labor party, let alone a mass socialist party. In an effort to overcome this predicament, a new generation of militants hope to transform the Democratic Party or use its ballot to build forces inside it for an eventual “dirty break.” In his new book, Moody argues this electoral orientation is a trap and that socialists should instead build class and social struggle and galvanize a militant minority as the preconditions for the formation of a working class party. Get the book, Breaking the Impasse: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1873-breaking-the-impasse Speakers: Kim Moody was a founder of Labor Notes in the US and the author of several books on labour and politics including Breaking the Impasse: Electoral Politics, Mass Action & the New Socialist Movement in the United States (2022); Tramps & Trade Union Travelers: Internal Migration and Organized Labor in Gilded Age America (2017); and On New Terrain: How Capital Is Reshaping The Battleground Of Class War; all from Haymarket. He has a PhD from the University of Nottingham and is currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Westminster in London. He is a member of the University and College Union and the National Union of Journalists. Joe Burns is a veteran union negotiator and labor lawyer with over 25 years experience negotiating labor agreements. He is currently the Director of Collective Bargaining for the Association of Flight Attendants, CWA. He graduated from the New York University School of Law. Prior to law school he worked in a public sector hospital and was president of his AFSCME Local. He is the author of Class Struggle Unionism, Strike Back: Rediscovering Militant Tactics to Fight the Attacks on Public Employee Unions and Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America. Keon Liberato is a railroad track construction worker and president of Track Local 3012 in the Teamsters Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Division (BMWED) Teamsters Rail Conference. He is a co-founder and co-chair of the BMWED-IBT Rank & File United reform caucus. Liberato is a member of the Democratic Socialist of America where he served as a member of the National Political Committee from 2020-2021. Lois Weiner, Professor Emerita, New Jersey City University, is a career teacher, education researcher, and teacher union activist. Her new book, as yet untitled, takes up what the Left can learn about defending social justice and workers' rights by examining capitalism's latest project to deprofessionalize teaching, undercut teachers' labor activism, and destroy public education. Chapters One and Two have been published by New Politics and Tempest. --------------------------------------------------------- This event is sponsored by Spectre Journal and Haymarket Books. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/W0xxhv1ZOtQ Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

In this programme, we broadcast Ollie's sit down interview with Iain Dale of LBC. In the fascinating half-hour conversation, Iain speaks about his career in politics and broadcasting, recounting some of his most thrilling on-air moments and says why he thinks LBC's phone-in model is attracting such journalistic talent at the moment. Also on the programme, Vivek Santayana (VP of Edinburgh's University and College Union branch) sits down to chat about the motivation for the latest round of strikes, and the direction that future industrial action might take. Plus reaction and analysis of Edinburgh-based news with Susanna Siddell from The Student. To get in touch with the FreshAir News team, email news@freshair.radio

Tertiary Education Work Landscape in Focus: England II Marxist 2021 featured the New battlegrounds of class struggle: university workers fight back, with activists from Australia and around the world. Today we play the speech from Feyzi Ismail. Feyzi Ismail is a member of the University and College Union at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. In recent years union activists at SOAS have organised casual academics, campaigned successfully to reverse the outsourcing of cleaning and other support staff, and organised major strikes over pensions and job security.Yarra Council Update - Stephen Jolley II We talk to Stephen Jolley, independent Socialist councillor on the Yarra Council about the end to a social housing project in Yarra and the defeat of hikes to sports facilities fees to community sports clubs.This is the Week II Kevin is a Saturday morning indulgence - the week tied up.Chemicals in our Food Chain II Dr Matt Landos talks to us about the problem of regulation of chemicals in our food chain and why we should be worried about the regulator APVMA (the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority).

Kim Moody and Kate Doyle Griffiths in conversation about updating the rank and file strategy and how it applies to labor organizing today. With the growth of the new socialist movement, a debate has emerged over strategy in the union movement. Kim Moody, author of On New Terrain: How Capital is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War, will join Spectre editor Kate Doyle Griffiths to explain, discuss, and update the classic rank and file strategy and contrast it with the various alternatives on the contemporary left. Speakers: Kim Moody was a founder of Labor Notes in the US and is the author of several books on labour and politics, including On New Terrain: How Capital is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Westminster in London, and a member of the University and College Union and the National Union of Journalists. Kate Doyle Griffiths is a doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center in the department of Anthropology. They write about work, women and queers, strikes and social reproduction in the USA and South Africa. —————————————————————————————————————————— This event is sponsored by Spectre Journal and Haymarket Books. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/uPO2Pp5ftIA Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Jo Grady, general secretary of the University and College Union in the United Kingdom, talks about the prospects for a truly feminist labor movement. The post Belabored: Women on Labor’s Frontline, with Jo Grady appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

Today, Martha Muñoz is here! One of my #HERper heroes, Martha talks to me about her fantastic work on thermal ecology, biomechanics and diversity in reptiles and amphibians. This episode's Paper in Focus is from Yusan Yang, on the territorial behaviour of poison frogs in Panamá (paper link below). Ever been told to stay out of politics and to "stick to science?" Martha and I are joined by Kirsty Graham and Sharmi Sen to talk about how politics and science intersect professionally and personally - as well as how we can better our institutions by getting involved in politics at the local level.Hosted, as always, by me, Kirsty MacLeod. Drop me a line anytime: hello[at]theweepodcast.orgLinks & ResourcesPaper in Focus: Prior residence effect determines success of male–male territorial competition in a color polymorphic poison frog. Also seeYusan's tweet thread about the paper (great videos!). Simien Mountains Gelada Research Project - and the NGO Save the Simiens Sharmi mentioned to create jobs and keep the national park trash-free!Support the Animal Behaviour Collective! They are accepting one-off and regular donations, as well as mentors.Want to join a Union? Here's the one Kirsty mentioned, the University and College Union.

Yorkshire Post Westminster Correspondent Geri Scott chats with the GEneral Secretary of the University and College Union, Jo Grady.

Halls have been locked down. Students have asked for their money back. And among staff, there have been complaints of coercion from management and rumblings of industrial action. For universities, could a short-term crisis develop into an existential threat?This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today and get one month free at: thetimes.co.uk/storiesofourtimes.Guests:- Scott Galloway, professor at NYU Stern School of Business.- An anonymous senior academic at one of the UK's top universities.- Jo Grady, general secretary, University and College Union. Host: Manveen Rana.Clips: BBC News, Sky News, Channel 4 News. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Host TJ Logan and special guests talk all about the future of the student union.  Things like design, changing the culture on campus and what every union professional should be planning for. Will the traditional college campus be relevant in the future?Today, it seems that everything in higher education is in question. Now more than ever it's important for us to have those tough conversations about what the future holds.Join us as we talk to the placemakers…those professionals who are in the business of making college campuses places where people want to be…

In February 2020, 74 universities affiliated to the UCU (University and College Union) began 14 days of industrial action, launching ‘Four Fights’ over casualisation of labour, unsafe workloads, falling pay, and gender and ethnicity pay gaps. The strikes became national news, supported by staff and students alike, with vibrant picket lines at many “art schools” across the country speaking out against exorbitant tuition fees, massive pay gaps between vice chancellors and lecturers, the punitive and racist Prevent programme introduced to stop student ‘radicalisation’, the digitalisation of courses and much more. Juliet Jacques – herself a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art, where 90% of staff are casualised – spoke to artist and researcher Dr Annie Goh, a lecturer in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins and an Associate Lecturer in Sound Arts at London College of Communication, and Kyran Joughin, lecturer in film and critical practice at Wimbledon College of Art (part of the University of the Arts London) about the recent strikes, how the coronavirus crisis might lead to further digitalisation and casualisation, and how staff and students might organise against it. They also discussed the legacy of Thatcher’s assault on the idea of cultural democracy, the marketisation of education and privatisation of knowledge under the New Labour government, and the student protests after the Liberal Democrats broke their promise to abolish tuition fees on joining the Conservative-led coalition in 2010. As usual, a full list of references from this episode is available to subscribers – please visit https://www.patreon.com/suite212 to sign up for as little as $3 per month.

As members of the University and College Union, we are currently withdrawing our labour in opposition to the devastating cuts to our pension scheme, as well as our pay which has been in decline in real terms for the past ten years, the gender and race pay gaps, the rapid casualisation of universities’ work forces and our ever increasing, unsustainable workloads. You can read more about the strikes here: https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/10648/Help-UCU-achieve-a-huge-victory-for-staff---support-the-strikes and here: https://medium.com/@katecross_88138/ucu-strike-2020-a-guide-for-perplexed-students-a247e2a01b88 You can also listen to our previous episode on the UCU dispute here: https://soundcloud.com/stateofthetheorypodcast/episode-41-strike

Job security, unequal pay, excessive workloads, gender and racial inequality: this is the state of academia everywhere. How do we push for change when institutions don't want to? In the UK the University and College Union is on STRIKE to fight for the soul of the university and that means PhDiva Xine is too. Xine interviews Dr. Francesca Brooks about the history and demands behind the strike as well as the tactics and lived experience from the perspective of precarity. If you are elsewhere in the world, may you learn something useful from this struggle! You can show your solidarity by donating to the union's fighting fund which provides financial support for those going without pay, with emphasis on the most vulnerable: https://www.ucu.org.uk/fightingfund Or you can join the #digitalstrike by not posting about any work that benefits your institutional employer during this time. Use #UCUStrike #UCUStrikesBack, reshare this information about the strike widely! https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/nov/07/university-staff-dont-want-to-strike-for-fair-pensions-and-pay-but-were-being-forced-to

Tune into ‘Newsfeed’ with Purple Radio’s News Team. The one, only and BEST current affairs show at Durham University! We brought you a discussion on the General Election debate, coverage University and College Union strikes, and the UK Drag Race Final; alongside a whole host of headlines in the news and highlights from the world of entertainment, and media.

On today's show we dissect the moments from yesterday's impeachment hearing Democrats in and out of the media don't want people to hear. Plus, the media drops the ball with another fake news story on immigration, a Democratic mayor gets arrested for allegedly taking a bribe and the New York Times buries his party affiliation, and a university lecturer's union declares it ok and normal for people to identify as another race. Day 1 of week 2 of the impeachment hearings didn't go any better than week 1 for Democrats. Adam Schiff and Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman were both outed as likely being less than truthful, so to speak, when it comes to their claims of not knowing who the so-called whistleblower is. The audio is hilarious and needs to be heard to be believed, which means both men really can't be believed at all. News outlets had themselves a big scoop: the Trump administration was detaining 100,000 illegal alien children. Liberals scrambled to spread the story in an attempt to use it to attack President Trump, only there was one big problem: the numbers were from 2015, when Barack Obama was president. Suddenly, all "news" value in the story was gone and it was retracted. Weird, right? We get into it. The Democratic Mayor of Muncie, Indiana was indicted on charges of bribery Monday, but you'd have to read well down into the New York Times story on the subject to discover which political party he belongs to. It's good to be a Democrat. We have the story. And the University and College Union, representing more than 100,000 university lecturers, has declared that people can identify and transition to other races. This is going over as well as you'd expect, but in a world where men can claim to be women and dominate women's sports, is there really any argument against the next level of insanity?

Tune into ‘Newsfeed’ with Purple Radio’s News Team. The one, only and BEST current affairs show at Durham University! We brought you a discussion on the General Election campaign, coverage University and College Union strikes, and the reintroduction of the Motorola flip phone; alongside a whole host of headlines in the news and highlights from the world of entertainment, and media.

This week on the podcast the Office for Students has released data on senior pay, and there's a major report on the civic role of universities. The University and College Union has asked its members what they think of the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework, and we hear from this week's bloggers. With Anne Marie Canning of King's College London, William Whyte from the University of Oxford, and Wonkhe's Arthi Nachiappan.

Trade union activists, particularly those on the left, will almost certainly be familiar with the terms “bureaucracy” and “rank and file”. But what do they mean? In this episode, with Ellie sadly absent, Edd gives us a historical sketch of the development of trade union officialdom, and talks about some Marxist approaches to understanding it. Daniel worries that he might himself have become a bureaucrat. Finally, we talk to Rhian Keyse, an activist in the University and College Union, about the embryonic rank-and-file revolt in that union around the 2018 strikes against pension cuts. The new rank-and-file initiatives she refers to, UCU Rank-and-File and the Branch Solidarity Network, are online here: https://twitter.com/ucu_rankfile Hmmm https://ucubranchsolidaritynetwork.wordpress.com/ In the course of the episode, various historical organisations/episodes are mentioned fleetingly, so here’s some suggested further reading: The Local Associations National Action Campaign, an attempt to form a rank-and-file network in the National Union of Teachers, which has since evolved into the Educational Solidarity Network in the National Education Union: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2012/06/06/rank-and-file-teachers-organise https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2012/06/13/rank-and-file-teachers-conference-forum-and-voice The National Minority Movement, a rank-and-file movement in British trade unions in the 1920s, led by Communist Party members: https://www.marxists.org/archive/higgins/1970/11/minmvmt.htm Teamsters for a Democratic Union: http://www.tdu.org/who_we_are John Moloney, a rank-and-file candidate for PCS Assistant General Secretary, standing on a platform including a commitment to only take an average workers’ wage, and on the policy that all full time officials should be elected: https://pcsindependentleft.com/2019/01/27/pcs-ags-election-john-moloney-speaks/

Pope Francis has for the first time publicly acknowledged the scandal of priests and bishops sexually abusing nuns, and says he is committed to doing more to fight the problem. Jenni speaks to survivors; Rocio Figueroa a theologian and lecturer, and author, Doris Reisinger Wagner, who were both once nuns and to Sister Sharlet Wagner, a Sister of the Holy Cross and the current President of The Leadership Conference of Women Religious in the US.A report released by the University and College Union suggests that bullying and stereotyping is blocking the professorial path for black women. Dr Nicola Rollock conducted the research and spoke to 20 of the 25 female black professors in the UK including Gina Higginbottom, Emeritus Professor of Ethnicity and Community Health at the University of Nottingham. They join Jenni to discuss the explicit and more subtle ways that black female academics are prevented from attaining the highest positions at UK universities.American actor and Paralympian Katy Sullivan plays Ani, who becomes quadriplegic following a car accident in Martyna Majok's Pulitzer prize winning drama The Cost of Living. Katy talks to Jenni about how the play explores attitudes to disability, race, class and wealth.And the fourth in our series of family secrets. A woman we are calling Liz found out her father's secret at the worst possible time.

In this episode, I speak with Professor Anne-Marie Angelo on the history and legacy of the Israeli Black Panthers. Suggested Readings: On the Israeli Black Panthers: Oz Frankel – “What’s In a Name? The Black Panthers in Israel” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17541320802063554?journalCode=rsix2 “Israeli black panthers remind us what their struggle was about” https://972mag.com/israels-black-panthers-remind-us-what-their-struggle-was-all-about/122566/ “Jewish Arabs and the birth of Israel's Black Panthers” https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2016/5/15/jewish-arabs-and-israels-black-panthers “The Legacy of Israel’s Black Panthers” https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2016/5/16/the-legacy-of-israels-black-panthers May 19, 2971 Demonstration by the Israeli Black Panthers (AP Archive) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0T4-sd9fNk Interview w/ Reuven Abergel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0uSQA1TMbw&feature=youtu.be “Saadia Marciano: Founder of Israel's Black Panthers” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/saadia-marciano-founder-of-israels-black-panthers-766842.html On the UK Professors’ Strike: University and College Union https://www.ucu.org.uk/ UCU Announces 14 Strike Dates at 61 Universities in Pensions Row https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/9242/UCU-announces-14-strike-dates-at-61-universities-in-pensions-row UCU Members Have Voted to Accept the UUK Offer (update) https://www.ucu.org.uk/strikeforuss -- Pictured: Israeli Black Panthers Protest -- Theme Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -- Interact: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Curious Cat: www.curiouscat.me/leftpoc Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Support: Patreon: patreon.com/leftpoc

Dissident Island Radio episode 210 brings revolutionary rumblings including:   – A UCU – University and College Union member and striking staff member discussing the ongoing industrial action across UK universities (00:01:36 – 00:16:48)   – The LDMG with legal info on pickets, spitting and railway invasions (00:20:24 – 00:32:23)   – Clips from an infotalk on the 6-year old Hambacher Forest Occupation against RWE's mining of lignite in Germany (00:37:14 – 00:58:51)   – Announcements for upcoming actions and gatherings around the UK (00:59:05 – 01:03:58)   – An update from inside Afrin recorded days before the Turkish/Jihadist takeover of the city (01:09:25 – 01:29:54)   – DJ B52 playing us out with some tasty drum ‘n' bass (01:34:16 – 02:39:01)   Plus tracks by Kincee Baby Face Pearlis and Portico Quartet

The Context of White Supremacy hosts the weekly Compensatory Call-In. We encourage non-white listeners to dial in with their codified concepts, new terms, observations, research findings, workplace problems or triumphs, and/or suggestions on how best to Replace White Supremacy With Justice ASAP. We'll use these sessions to hone our use of words as tools to reveal truth, neutralize White people. We'll examine news reports from the past seven days and - hopefully - promote a constructive dialog. #ANTIBLACKNESS The state of Florida, nicknamed the "Gunshine" state because of their longstanding devotion to safeguarding the rights of gun owners, passed significant restrictions on firearm acquisition - including lifting the age to legally purchase a gun to 21. In the same state, a White female school teacher, Dayanna Volitich, was relieved of her teaching responsibilities after it became public that she hosted a "White Nationalist" podcast during her leisure time. On the other side of the world, Rufaro Chisango, a black female student at Nottingham Trent University and College Union, captured video of her White classmates chanting "we hate blacks" as they stampeded through the dormitory. The young Race Soldiers were later arrested. Also in Europe, actor Marius Makon was terrorized by a White Woman in a Madrid bar. The Race Soldier allegedly bludgeoned him across the head with a beer bottle, shouting: "I'm white... I can kill you and nothing will happen." #AntiBlackness INVEST in The COWS - http://paypal.me/GusTRenegade CALL IN NUMBER: 641.715.3640 CODE 564943#

In this episode, we take a deep dive into questions of class composition and labour movement strategy via an interview with Kim Moody. Kim is a labour movement writer and activist, who co-founded Labor Notes in the USA (www.labornotes.org). His new book, ‘On New Terrain: How Capital is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War’ is published by Haymarket, and is available to buy here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1106-on-new-terrain We begin the episode with a rattle through some recent labour movement news, including: “An Open Letter to Fellow Aslef Drivers”, looking at questions of industrial unionism and class solidarity in railway workers’ strikes against the imposition of “Driver Only Operation”: www.workersliberty.org/blogs/2018-01-19/open-letter-fellow-aslef-drivers-which-side-are-we The latest with the Picturehouse Cinema workers’ strikes. Donate to the strike fund here: www.crowdpac.co.uk/campaigns/250/picturehousestrike The upcoming University and College Union pension strikes (www.ucu.org.uk/strikeforuss), and a recent local success for the UCU at the University of Manchester: www.ucu.org.uk/article/9141/Industrial-action-suspended-at-University-of-Manchester More inspiring struggles from migrant-led unions like IWGB (www.iwgb.org.uk/) and UVW (www.uvwunion.org.uk/) Potential disputes over public sector pay from unions like the PCS (www.pcs.org.uk/payup) and Unison (www.unison.org.uk/news/press-release/2017/12/council-pay-offer-considered-local-government-unions/) A win for local unions and community campaigns against gentrification in Haringey: theclarionmag.org/2018/02/02/stop-hdv-campaign-forces-claire-kobers-resignation/ A strike at the Camell-Laird shipyard: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-42690268 Quite a bit to take in there, admittedly, but in our defence it’s been two months since our last episode. Drop us a line on Facebook or Twitter to let us know about any ongoing disputes you’re involved in, either directly or in a supportive capacity. Check previous episode descriptions for copyright info.

The role of British universities as places for building and nurturing multicultural communities might be at a risk as a result of Brexit. Canada has recently overtaken the UK as the most desirable destination for EU students, and the number of those applying for early deadline courses via UCAS has dropped by nine per cent. And it doesn’t look much different for the teaching staff as the University and College Union found that 76 per cent of EU academics working in Britain are now more likely to consider leaving the country and a third of them already know of fellow academics leaving the UK. To get some insight into how universities, their students and staff are feeling about this we brought on Sally Hunt, who’s the general secretary of the UCU. We discuss what a multicultural campus offers its students and what is needed, especially from Theresa May in her government, to sustain this. #Podcast #Brexit #BrexitPodcast #Referendum #EUReferendum #VoteLeave #VoteRemain #VoteIn #EU #UK #TimHeming #JenniferHahn #News #Politics #highereducation #university #college #sallyhunt #universityandcollegeunion #ucu #erasmus #students #student #internationalstudent #semesterabroad #academics #teachingstaff #lecturers #researchstudents #phd #master #bachelor