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2006

UCU news from 2006

  • 25 September 2006

    There was solid support for strikes held at colleges in Northern Ireland on Tuesday 19 September when hundreds of lecturers took to picket lines in a call for pay…

  • 15 September 2006

    Northern Ireland's 16 further education colleges are expected to be shut down next Tuesday as a result of more strike action by lecturers. This will be the third…

  • 28 July 2006

    After lobbying by UCU, prison educators have won guarantees that the cost and value of their pension will remain effectively unchanged despite a change of employer.…

  • 26 July 2006

    UCU has now received from the Electoral Reform Society the results of a consultative membership ballot on proposed changes to the Teachers Pension Scheme. The ballot…

  • 26 July 2006

    Many prison educators - the key to reducing prisoner reoffending, which costs the UK £11 billion a year* - may quit their jobs if their new employers worsen their…