Further Education lecturers and students joined our magnificent battling HE comrades in a march on Parliament last Wednesday. It was the first day of a two-day action in FE to be followed up by a further three days of strike …
Cambridge University shows solidarity with City and Islington College
All strikes are important but there are some strikes which reflect a wider political shift taking place within society as a whole. The strike by 40,000 HE workers across 64 universities …
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 was greeted with cheers by hundreds of strikers outside the University administration buildings in …
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 underway.
The reason these strikes are happening is as a result of UCU Left members …
The Tories’ announcement on 19 November that they were looking into Higher Education funding is an admission that their policy of overpriced undergraduate …
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. Also links to materials produced around the country:
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 first phase of action will be a two-day strike on the 28th February and …
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 union’s branches. In FE, ballots are on-going over pay, which could lead to University employers have provoked the largest vote for industrial action ever seen in the higher education sector. They have done this by overseeing …
Download the leaflet here: Historic Vote in UCU
The vote for strikes to defend USS pensions in pre-92 universities is historic on many levels.
Not only is the 56% turnout and 88% …
