Why Are Students Being Caught in the Crossfire of University Strikes?

The UK university strikes are bringing to mind the following quote from Mark Fisher in Capitalist Realism:"For instance, in the case of teachers and lecturers, the tactic of strikes (or even of marking bans) should be abandoned, because they only hurt students and members (at the college where I used to work, one-day strikes were pretty much welcomed by management because they saved on the wage bill whilst causing negligible disruption to the college). What is needed is the strategic withdrawal of forms of labor which will only be noticed by management: all of the machineries of self-surveillance that have no effect whatsoever on the delivery of education, but which managerialism could not exist without."Rather than total strikes why not boycott the managerial work, which seems to be the biggest thing that academics complain about with relation to how overworked they are, and instead devote the time to delivering the best possible education for their students? This would demonstrate how the corporatism of university is holding back the ability to deliver good education while helping students, rather than hurting them and giving them cause to resent labour movements.It generally feels as though unions haven't adapted to late capitalism and are suffering as a result; applying the techniques and strategies of the Fordist age to an environment where they are ineffective. Is this a common feeling in labour movements? via /r/communism https://ift.tt/33jnjJD