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2 December 2025
UCU has today condemned plans by the University of Essex to axe 400 jobs and close its Southend campus. In an email sent to staff, the vice-chancellor, has confirmed…
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20 November 2025
Planned industrial action at Lancaster University has been suspended, after management agreed to halt all planned compulsory redundancies for academic staff until…
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18 November 2025
Staff at the University of Sheffield began 14 days of strike action on Monday 17 November, UCU has announced. The full UCU strike dates are: Monday 17, Tuesday…
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17 November 2025
UCU Scotland members at the University of Edinburgh today begin three days of strike action in a dispute over £140million cuts and job losses, including the possible…
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17 November 2025
UCU has suspended planned strike action at the University of Nottingham after management agreed to halt all compulsory redundancies until at least 31 October 2026,…
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13 November 2025
Staff at the University of Derby have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over potential compulsory redundancies and course closures, UCU announced…
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13 November 2025
Staff at Lancaster University will take two days of strike action on Thursday 27 and Friday 28 November in a dispute over a threat to axe one in four staff, UCU…
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5 November 2025
Staff at Lancaster University will begin industrial action on Monday 10 November over management's threat to axe one in four workers.
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30 October 2025
UCU has today announced further strike action at the University of Nottingham as part of its ongoing dispute over vicious job cuts UCU members have taken 20 days…
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30 October 2025
A combined 28 days of strike action will hit the city of Sheffield over the next two months in rows over job cuts at Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam universities,…
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