{"id":408,"date":"2019-11-25T17:04:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T17:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/?p=408"},"modified":"2019-11-25T17:04:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T17:04:30","slug":"strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2019\/11\/25\/strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Strike Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Dear Members<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">It was amazing to see so many \u00a0wonderful colleagues on the pickets this morning. We had packed branch meeting, at which our updated hardship fund rules were unanimously approved. We will remind you of the details in a separate message later on. The meeting was followed by a lovely branch lunch in Rutherford Dining Hall. Catering staff looked us very well and the food was appreciated by all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">We were delighted to welcome a surprise visitor \u00a0at lunch \u2013 our local MP, Rosie Duffield. She addressed the assembled throng and offered her support to our cause. This was met by uproarious applause.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-409\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/files\/2019\/11\/PHOTO-2019-11-25-13-34-58-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/files\/2019\/11\/PHOTO-2019-11-25-13-34-58-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/files\/2019\/11\/PHOTO-2019-11-25-13-34-58-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/files\/2019\/11\/PHOTO-2019-11-25-13-34-58-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-411\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/files\/2019\/11\/PHOTO-2019-11-25-13-35-42-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/files\/2019\/11\/PHOTO-2019-11-25-13-35-42-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/files\/2019\/11\/PHOTO-2019-11-25-13-35-42-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/files\/2019\/11\/PHOTO-2019-11-25-13-35-42-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/files\/2019\/11\/PHOTO-2019-11-25-13-35-42.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Do keep an eye on the strike Calendar:\u00a0<a id=\"LPlnk137651\" title=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1my9AIpDNLU4ek0xt8UIZMz45ezgy7leFADTN2Mpafi4\/edit\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1my9AIpDNLU4ek0xt8UIZMz45ezgy7leFADTN2Mpafi4\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1my9AIpDNLU4ek0xt8UIZMz45ezgy7leFADTN2Mpafi4\/edit<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">What an incredible first day. We look forward to seeing all of you tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Best<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Sian, Owen, Phil and Mark<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Branch Officers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Members It was amazing to see so many \u00a0wonderful colleagues on the pickets this morning. We had packed branch meeting, at which our updated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2019\/11\/25\/strike\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39717,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[155772,155771,19092],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39717"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}