Cambridge students rally outside Senate House in solidarity with striking UCU members
News that Cambridge Vice Chancellor Steven Toope called on UUK to return to negotiations …

UCU members are in the middle of major strike action. In HE we are seeing phenomenal attendance on picket lines. In FE strike preparations are …

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The Tories’ announcement on 19 November that they were looking …

This is the latest blog post from UCU London Region on the FE Pay ballot results, USS and next organising steps for industrial action across both sectors. …

UCU members in 16 colleges have voted by 92% on a 63% turn out to take escalating strike action. The employers have been notified that …

The HEC decision to call 14 days of strike action in pre-92 universities to defend our USS pensions from the theft employers are planning is transforming the …

There is no justification for this pension attack – USS’s finances are strong, argue 153 university academics

University employers have provoked the largest vote for industrial action …

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Now Make It Count: build the strikes
The vote for strikes to defend USS pensions in pre-92 universities is historic …

Today the USS Joint Negotiating Committee voted with the casting vote of the chair Sir Andrew Cubie to end future accrual in the collective defined benefit pension scheme and move all future accrual to the individual defined contribution scheme.

19 colleges across England  will be sent ballot forms tomorrow asking UCU members to vote to take action over pay and conditions.

Here is a link …