17:03 – We’ll wrap up the love blog there. Thanks for reading! Do join us on Twitter where we’ll be covering the visit of former Columbian President to Senate House https://mobile.twitter.com/soas_spirit
17:01 –
17:00 – The stall selling cakes for the Justice for Cleaners strike fund has raised £123
16:29 – Co-President Leah Edwards has launched a petition calling for the School to put docked strike pay into the student hardship fund
16:27 – Apparently SOAS canteen took just £70 today
14:33 – UCU Branch President Nadje al-Ali thanks students for their support and says its what makes teaching at SOAS so worthwhile
14:29 – I’m guessing Paul Webley won’t be very keen on this banner…
14:18 – Looking through the window a lecture is taking place in G50, there seems to be about 10 students present. According to the timetable that’s a lecture on post-war Japanese society.
14:16 –
13:15 – Going by how few bikes there are in the racks outside there can’t be many staff and students here. Only a small trickle have gone into the building through out the day.
12:54 – Georgie Robertson, Campaigns Officer, tells me the Union will be raising the issue of docked wages being paid into the hardship wound with the School
12:43 –
12:41 – We’re expecting most of the students currently on the picket line to join a demonstration shortly, but before then let’s update you in the day so far.
– lecturers and support staff at SOAS, and universities across the country, are taking strike action over pay
– Around 50 staff and students are gathered outside the main building and there are picket lines at Vernon Square, the Faber Building and the Language Centre
– Lecturers have given teach-outs on the Steps on topics such as austerity, queer feminism and global protest movements
– UCU Branch President Nadje Al-Ali has reveiled that SOAS isn’t puting strikers’ docked wages into the student hardship fund, as was previously thought
12:34 – Hi, it’s Tom King, News Editor, bringing you updates on the staff strike at SOAS.