Strikes are seen as legitimate form of action when communication breaks down between management and employees. However, the question is whether they are beneficial in successfully communicating grievances and achieving the desire outcome. A key to successful strike is gaining support from people not involved in the disagreement. Therefore its important that groups involved in strike action insure they communicate their cause to wider audiences before the actually strike. Some Scottish university has made the decision to take strike action on the 24th March to protest against changes in pension changes. Stirling university staff are to join this strike, but also to fight the upcoming redundancy in the aquaculture department.
The Thursdays before some staff took teaching out of the classroom and had a rally to highlight their cause and gain support. The Speaker at the rally spoke passionately about the cause demanding that the need to stand united. Though there was clear support among the crowd the rest of university seemed to carry on as usual.
Student that will be affected by the cuts seem to be well informed about the action and in support would support the strikes. However, Student in other departments had clearly not be well informed about the strike and therefore did not see the action as legitimate. The fact that the majority of students had not be told about this actions indicates that staff are not relaying the need inform. This shows why strikes of this sort may not gain the support need for there successes.
Only time will tell whether this strike will help the cause in the long run, but clearly more need to be done to ensure the the whole student body is on board.
Video Edited from footage taken on the 17th March 2011
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