Our Strike_ the latest!
Hi all,
I hope that you are all well and that you are keeping yourselves busy during the strike.
First of all, many thanks to all of you who have expressed your support to the ongoing action. It has been really amazing that students have been on the pickets with us on so many days (hope you recognise one current and one ex-OiM-er in the image above, haha!) … and some have even supplied me with much needed coffee and other nurishments!
I am sure that many of you have heard that our protest yesterday in the Sheldonian has actually led the management in Oxford to make a U-turn and they no longer support the initial plans to destroy our pensions.
See: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/mar/07/oxford-university-backs-down-in-pensions-dispute
This blog offers a very good explanation for why it is important to strik: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/pension-strike-explainer/
I hope that we can now get back to work soon and put this episode behind us!
If I don’t see you around have a great Easter break!
Inge
