MMU student mag also had an editorial against the strike and industrial action a while back. What they dont understand is that while university management look like they are not active part in this dispute, and AUT/NATFHE are the ones rattling the cages, the employers organisation has been actively preventing a solution in this.
I think the unions should have seen this coming. Flat out strike would have worked much better from the start without really hurting students.
i read some of the comments though and a lot support the strike which cheers me a little. maybe you could write something jdmf/kidda along the lines of what jdmf said and give it to students? or is that a silly idea. sorry if it is. i'm a believer in the power of words. 
High School students struck and marched across Germany yesterday in protest against classroom overcrowding, lack of teachers, and the pressure of examinations.
Orwell describes the unthinking emptiness behind the rhetoric spouted by the Stalinist hacks of his day: "... prose consists less and less of WORDS chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of PHRASES tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."
has anyone else been ''encouraged'' to sign this?
http://www.mmunion.co.uk/Publisher/Article.aspx?id=41605
and what happens when these little henrys get their career and find its shitly paid and they want to kick up a fuss