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PAGE 10 SACK ESTHER McVEY: HOW TO UNSEAT A TORY THEATRE: THE ALMIGHTY FOR PEACE AND SOCIALISM SOMETIMES IS STUNNING AND ACUTE PAGE 13 £1 Tuesday February 20 2018 Proudly owned by our readers | Incorporating the Daily Worker | Est 1930 | morningstaronline.co.uk CITY UNI BOSSES ‘BULLIED STAFF INTO BREAKING STRIKES’ Management threatened lecturers with huge legal bills if they continue with action STAFF at City, University of by Conrad Landin some universities are choosing London, accused management Industrial Reporter to take a hard-line approach yesterday of bullying them into to try and bully staff into not breaking the national lectur- joining the strike action over ers’ strike by threatening to pensions. lumber striking workers with “This is utterly counterproduc- huge legal costs. tive and, in our experience, treat- Students being charged sky- ing staff with such contempt high tuition fees at a number of only hardens their resolve. universities have called for their “Instead of threatening strik- institutions to compensate them ing staff , university leaders for lost contact hours. should be focusing their eff orts At City, more than a thousand on getting [management] back students are thought to have to the negotiating table to sort signed a petition demanding a out this dispute.” rebate of £1,295 for the Univer- The potential of compen- sity and College Union (UCU) sation claims could give the 14-day strike over pensions. union more leverage as it battles College management wrote to changes to lecturers’ pensions. staff yesterday, telling them that But student campaigners striking lecturers “may be per- have said the debacle dem- sonally liable for any damages” onstrates the extent to which if sued by students. higher education has become “Individuals choosing to take Legal sources said it was marketised in Britain. part in this industrial action doubtful that such lawsuits National Union of Students will need to be aware that City could succeed. executive member Amelia Hor- reserves the right to join an indi- “It’s a fairly classic approach gan said the government and vidual member of staff as a party to try and scare off strikers,” university bosses “have waged to any claims for damages made one lawyer said. “Whether a concerted campaign not just against City that have arisen as they’d ever get off the ground to turn to our universities into a result of non-performance of is questionable.” businesses but to turn students their duties, for example, claims UCU general secretary Sally into consumers too.” SCOTLAND: SNP NEEDS TO ACT ON POVERTY from students,” the memo said. 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Mr The officer, who used Paul Gravett, who was also are the subject of a public Frampton declined to com- the “cover name” Christine key to the unmasking of inquiry that has still to start ment at the time. Green, has lived in remote spycop turned Tory council- hearing evidence after the They are thought to have parts of Cornwall and Scot- lor and former deputy police government set it up in 2015. moved again since then, but land with anti-fox hunting commissioner Andy Coles, Police files on covert oper- their current whereabouts campaigner Tom Frampton, said he had known Ms Green ations have been destroyed are unknown. the Guardian reported yes- during her deployment. since the probe was estab- [email protected] terday. She became friends “She had quite a seri- lished, and victims of police with Mr Frampton during her ous and aloof personal- spying have accused the deployment. ity although she could Met of trying to wreck the Ms Green is the first be friendly to people she inquiry’s progress. female officer known to have wanted to know,” he told the The inquiry is expected had a long-term relationship Guardian. to release several more with a campaigner. It is not Activists said Ms Green cover names used by known at what stage she helped manage the finances infiltrators today.