Mr. Hussain's rise offers a striking illustration of the political melee in Pakistan.
The latest move is an escalation of UCU's industrial action over a 1% pay rise offered to university staff.
WITH the Western way of doing things under siege, India's rise offers a dollop of reassurance to anyone who believes in the combination of democracy and capitalism.
He urged universities to "deliver realistic and affordable pay settlements in the light of falling inflation", which will disappoint the lecturers' union which rejected a 0.3% pay rise offered by university employers last month.
Instead, in a letter to the Health Secretary, junior doctor's chairman Dr Johann Malawana proposed an alternative contract - based on an offer by the BMA in December - which would reduce the basic pay rise offered in exchange for better out-of-hours rates.
However, the BMA, which was given until 3pm to reply, appeared to reject the deal in a letter to the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, in which their junior doctor chairman Dr Johann Malawana offered an alternative settlement, based on one the BMA proposed in December, which would reduce the basic pay rise offered to junior doctors in exchange for better out-of-hours rates.
For Labour ministers, it was a worrying portent of further confrontation with the unions that fund the party.Council workers are unhappy with the 2.45% pay rise offered to them by town halls, arguing that, with retail-price inflation at 4.6%, the deal represents a wage cut in real terms.
The two-hour walkouts are an escalation of UCU's industrial action over a 1% pay rise offered to university staff, and come after its members, along with those from a number of other unions, took part in two one-day walkouts in the autumn term.
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