The Coventry Telegraph has a story about the strike yesterday, with reports from University of Warwick. One thing that isn’t coming through clearly enough in the news reports – and with this as with much else I blame the UCU – is that the strike is not just about lecturers and professor’s pay. It is about pay to all staff in the university sector – from cleaners and kitchen staff to administrators and teachers. There is an estimate of 4,000 people paid below the living wage in the HE sector. The action should also be about a wider argument about the future of our universities. The idea that someone like me – paid well as a professor – is striking out of mere self-interest is a real problem, and the Union needs to do much more to challenge that perception.