News
Leading news and reaction from UCU.
-
8 September 2025
Members of the University and College Union at the University of Edinburgh today begin the first of five days of strike action over senior managers' plans to cut…
-
5 September 2025
Members of UCU at Dundee university are being re-balloted from today (5 September) to take industrial action#1 as the financial and management crisis at the university…
-
6 May 2025
UCU Scotland comment on announcement from the Aberdeen University Principal that the university has a £5.5million budget gap and will be seeking job cuts through…
-
11 March 2025
UCU comment on the news announced at an all staff meeting today that Dundee University will be cutting 632 jobs, and that they expect to do so including by using…
-
12 June 2020
Universities desperately need a clear and coherent plan from the UK government if we are to avoid losing educational capacity at a time when it will be needed most,…
-
21 February 2020
Solid support for strikes as students call on university heads to do more to solve disputes Support for the biggest ever wave of strikes on university campuses…
-
7 February 2020
Fourteen strike days at 74 UK universities in February and March UCU members at 74 UK universities will walk out for 14 days in February and March . The action…
-
6 December 2019
UNIVERSITY STRIKES Solid action by defiant UCU members and supporters in university strikes Solid strike action continued at 60 universities this week as the employers…
-
22 March 2019
Strikes at five colleges this week with progress in some disputes UCU members at West Thames College, South Bank College, Croydon College, Bradford College and…
-
1 March 2019
UCU general secretary Sally Hunt resigns for health reasons UCU general secretary Sally Hunt has resigned for health reasons. The union's national executive committee…
- PrintPrint this page
- Share
