After the first five of our 14 strike days, the employers are looking for ways to settle. There were talks last week in both …

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We are entering a crucial phase in UCU’s two concurrent disputes. Our second wave of strikes represents an escalation in terms of strike days and …

 
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Arguments against the 14 days strikes planned in HE are circulating in some quarters of the UCU. Some of these voices …

One of the most serious and important debates in our union took place on Thursday at the Higher Education Committee of UCU over the two …

Members vote more than 3:1 Yes
14 more branches join the fight, 8 post-92
Over 50,000 HE members in 74 universities able to strike

The latest round of ballots …

Colleagues will have seen the email from UCU General Secretary Jo Grady today, Tuesday 28 February, announcing UCEA’s “final offer” on the Four Fights dispute.
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We enter the new semester knowing, yet again, the resolve of UCU members to fight for the defence of higher education. We now have a further 38 institutions balloting to join the action over USS and the ‘Four Fights one Dispute’ pay inequalities campaigns. There must be no wavering in our resolve to fight for the whole sector

The Four Fights over pay inequalities and the fifth fight over USS pensions is growing. New branches are being balloted to join the campaigns. Now is not the time for hesitation or cold feet. Linking the issues and uniting members in escalating action is the way to win.

The long awaited second Joint Expert Panel (JEP) report on USS was released on Friday 13th December. In this brief commentary many of the key positive and negative points of the Second JEP Report are examined.