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1 May 2026
Staff at the University of Nottingham will boycott all marking and assessments from Wednesday 20 May in a fight to protect more than 600 jobs.
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1 May 2026
UCU stands in solidarity with Jewish communities following the horrific attack in Golders Green in London.
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1 May 2026
A strike ballot at London South Bank University opened today over plans to tear up the contracts of all academics. The ballot runs until Friday 22 May and a successful…
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29 April 2026
UCU welcomed a high court ruling that overturns the Office for Students' (OfS) £585k fine imposed on Sussex University for breaching free speech regulations. UCU…
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28 April 2026
Members of UCU at Dundee university are being re-balloted from today for industrial action in a long running dispute over cuts and the threat of compulsory redundancies.…
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27 April 2026
UCU members at the University of Edinburgh will begin a marking and assessment boycott at the end of this week as part of a dispute over £140million cuts, up to…
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24 April 2026
Staff at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) have backed possible strikes in a dispute over jobs cuts and the possibility of compulsory redundancies. In the ballot…
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23 April 2026
All new Chichester University workers are no longer allowed onto the industry standard pension schemes, and instead solely have access to an inferior scheme, leaving…
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22 April 2026
Staff at the University of Essex will strike again tomorrow (Thursday 23 April), having already taken 16 days of action in a fight to save jobs, protect course…
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22 April 2026
Southampton Solent University staff will begin five days of strike action next week after management began forcing them out of their pension scheme by threatening…
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