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TEN union leaders have demanded that Ruskin College drop all disciplinary proceedings and threats of dismissal against staff after the college sacked a local union figure.
The college in Oxford, which is traditionally associated with workers’ education, has received a letter from 10 union general secretaries expressing “profound concerns” about how college management “appear to be victimising trade union reps from the UCU.”
University and College Union branch officer Lee Humber was sacked last Friday, having been suspended from work a few days after the union’s local branch passed a motion of no confidence in Ruskin principal Paul Di Felice.
JACK DAVIDSON explains the motivation behind the UCU strike action at the University of Sheffield
Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN