When I was at uni, it was the students, not the staff, who went on strike. There were, of course, many fewer unis and students and the staff couldn’t be sacked and had great pensions. In all public sector jobs, that balanced the fact that pay was lower, and now those lovely final salary pensions are being rather brutally cut. In my day, the students might have joined their lecturers on the picket line. Most current students of my acquaintance, however, would have rather more sympathy if they saw a staff member more than once a fortnight. There hasn’t, it seems, been much of a rush back to ‘face-to-face’ teaching in many a college; and you can, let’s face it, sit and look at a computer anywhere.
“Sunak and Hunt accused of ‘damaging UK plc’ over NatWest boss’s exit”
Here’s the flip side. Should a business not have the right to choose whom it serves? If you as a client, or more likely potential client, rub us up the wrong way, are a declared anti-vaxxer or support the barges, can we not, as a business, say ‘Be Gone’?