I don’t need to see the research. I feel this in my bones.
'The university has adopted the position that boycotting staff are in "breach of contract", will receive no pay, and are therefore not expected to work at all, leading to what some have described as a "lockout".' 1/3
The modern day equivalent of Lord Haw Haw broadcasting from afar.
What's different this time though is the British government broadcasts on the same frequency.
Staff at Edinburgh University have been told that they must cover for their boycotting colleagues or go without pay themselves.
Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship?
Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him.
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Update: Supposedly the ADA not the NIH called the police.
This makes sense: of course the ADA spontaneously and without coercion opted to forcibly remove from their annual meeting the editor-in-chief of their own flagship journal for sharing a paper they themselves published in that same journal.
This is just more World Leading behaviour, Paolo! He’s showing the other Russell group schools how to act at their next marking boycott!
Yes to all of the above. But also, scabs. Because of them, it is easy for the institution to paint union members as trouble makers (this is what Durham did during my time there). So hopefully the scabs at Edinburgh are happy to pick up the slack!!
I have not been in the pocket like that for a long time - I say winning :)