Striking on particular days?

[theferry]

A university close to me has announced strike action due to planned redundancies. It is going to be a solid three weeks. One particular lecturer from there has said she will only strike on the days she is teaching—that will mean striking for only 2 days per week. Is that allowed? Or if you’re on strike, do you have to do it for the full period?

She can't go.on strike on days she's not working. Striking is withdrawal of labour therefore none to withdraw on non-working days

You can strike or not and if you go on strike you can choose when to go on strike. The union are not fond of partial strikers (because, solidarity) but it allows the striker to cause disruption to the employer and not sacrifice too much income.

She works full time but is planning on only going on strikes on days that she is teaching. This is on the basis that strikes only work when it affects students.

You're colleague can do whatever she likes and I think her approach is pretty standard at my university.

You [not you, your in the general sense] don't have to do anything. The days you strike - all, none, some - are entirely up to you and between you and your HR department.

At my university there's an assumption that people only strike on days they're teaching because that's definitely withdrawing labour from the university, whereas research days are a bit more ambiguous in terms of who they benefit.

This is why striking doesn't work as a model in academia. It's ridiculous.

Full transparency - not a UCU member.