Kate Cross·Nov 26, 2021UCU strikes 2021–2022: A guide for the perplexedQ1. What is a strike?A response icon1A response icon1
Kate Cross·Feb 19, 2020The Alternative University of St Andrews: 2020While university staff are once more on strike for fairer working conditions, a small band of merry volunteers will be doing what they…
Kate Cross·Feb 17, 2020Precarity, the Misery CatI wrote a poem about precarious employment in universities, because silly verse is my favoured medium for talking about issues close to my…
Kate Cross·Sep 8, 2019Voting in the next UK General Election: A guide for perplexed students.Am I eligible to vote?
Kate Cross·Mar 29, 2018Why I plan to vote No to UUK’s latest offer (Part 2)NOTE: If you want detailed analysis with numbers and trade-union knowledge and whatnot, you want Felicity Callard or Gail Davies or Jo…
Kate Cross·Mar 28, 2018Why I plan to vote No to UUK’s latest offer. (Part 1*)So. It has come to this. We are to be balloted on the proposal produced by UUK. I am not here to argue about whether this was a good…
Kate Cross·Mar 1, 2018Calling all University of St Andrews alumni[UPDATE 05/03/2018: The University has backtracked on the threat of 100% deductions. Thank you to everyone who wrote, emailed, tweeted —…
Kate Cross·Feb 24, 2018Please join the UCU strike action right nowIf you’re one of my not-yet-striking friends and colleagues at a striking HE institution, I’d like to invite you to join UCU right now, and…A response icon3A response icon3
