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16 March 2011
As employers refuse talks on eve of first UK-wide university strike action in five years, leaked letter says changes cannot go ahead without two sides agreeing…
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15 March 2011
Members of UCU at colleges and universities across the UK will be on strike on Thursday 24 March in a row over changes to pension schemes, jobs losses and pay cuts.…
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3 February 2011
University to face local strike action for the first time in its history over restructure plans UCU today announced that staff at Belfast Metropolitan College (BMC)…
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19 January 2010
UCU will tomorrow ask Northern Ireland's MLAs to give their backing to its Make Education Count campaign. At an event at Stormont, the UCU – supported by the Ulster…
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23 June 2009
UCU's Stranmillis branch has said it is now 'deeply concerned' about the proposed merger with Queen's University, in the light of the academic plan as revealed…
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3 December 2008
UCU today urged Queen's University Belfast to reject a joint venture with the private education company INTO University Partnerships. The company has been rejected…
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5 March 2008
A lecturer at a further education college in Northern Ireland has won an employment tribunal ruling that she was treated unlawfully because her work is part-time.…
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19 October 2007
Twenty-two Northern Ireland college lecturers have begun to receive back pay of between £8,000 and £22,000 after an industrial tribunal ruled that they had been…
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8 October 2007
The Northern Ireland FE pay dispute took a new turn today with the announcement of an independent advisor tasked to facilitate an agreement. The independent adviser,…
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15 August 2007
The long-running pay dispute in Northern Ireland's further education sector looks set to escalate following the union's rejection of a 'derisory' pay offer at a…
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