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Labour MP refuses to cross picket line in solidarity with striking lecturers

February 12, 2018 / PSU-AAUP

Morning Star
By Peter Lazenby
February 10, 2018

A LABOUR MP has cancelled a lecture she was due to give at the University of Manchester because she refuses to cross picket lines.

Lucy Powell was scheduled to deliver the address on Thursday February 22, the day that members of the University and College Union (UCU) launch a series of 14 strikes in defence of their pensions.

Read the full article at the Morning Star website here.