Lancaster University Threaten Strikers With Withdrawal Of Death Benefits.

Lecturers at Lancaster University are striking tomorrow over attacks on their pensions.
Management at the university took the highly diplomatic and skilled human resources strategy (NOT) of threatening to withdraw any death benefits to staff on strike days, meaning it is financially unwise of them to die while they are strike.

Unsurprisingly, this subtle and sensitive approach to management has led many more people to decide to come out on strike and attend the picket line than would otherwise have participated.

If management were setting out to create bad feeling, tension and dissatisfaction among their staff, this would, without doubt, be the most efficient and effective way to do it.

Universities long ago stopped being places of study and learning for their own sake, and became instead machines for spewing out graduates at the most profitable rate possible.