Sentence examples for striking students from inspiring English sources

Like the hunger striking students, the faculty strike actions will be aimed at bringing public awareness to a CSU administration that has shown itself to be wholly out of touch with the needs of its students and its faculty (as well as the public interest).

Drawing on his experience at McGill University, strike veteran Jamie Burnett has some useful advice for the many student activists now considering how best to extend the campaign to other parts of Canada: don't indulge in "soft pickets" that allow classes to take place in spite of a strike mandate, and that thus allow staff to isolate and fail striking students.

With compensation for striking students now in excess of £400,000, UCL-CTR believes that rent strikes will become an increasingly important tactic amongst the wider student movement".

He pledged that striking students would be allowed to make up all their classes.

Last month striking students at the college hijacked a state-owned gasoline truck with a full tank.

Talks between the ruling conservative government and striking students collapsed on Wednesday evening with irate students accusing the government of failing to provide new proposals.

When hunger striking student Jonathan Butler spoke at a press conference after Wolfe was gone, his shout-out to "three black queer women" who had made his actions possible drew raucous and enthusiastic applause from the audience.

is and must continue to be a top-tier institution," hunger striking student David Flood wrote on the Campaign's blog, "but it cannot do this on the backs of underpaid and exploited workers".

But underlying them is the irritation of a generation of young people who think they will never be able to afford their own home, and resent an influx of mainland Chinese into an already crowded city.In 1989 China's prime minister, Li Peng, agreed to meet pyjama-clad hunger-striking students (just before he declared martial law in Beijing).

The encounter was the first between the two sides since pro-democracy unrest broke out in Hong Kong nearly a month ago, and the first of its kind anywhere in China since hunger-striking students in Tiananmen Square met government leaders in 1989.

The students claim that Andrew Grainger, UCL Director of Estates, has stated to rent-striking students that "We don't set our rents on the basis of the least well-off students" and that "some people just simply cannot afford to live in London".