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  • 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…

  • 31 January 2020

    Ballot results mean 74 universities could now be hit with industrial action The number of UK universities that could be hit with strike action this term now stands…

  • 29 January 2020

    Staff have reacted angrily to a restructure plan at Goldsmiths (University of London) to cut the number of frontline staff and increase the size of the senior management…

  • 27 January 2020

    Staff at the University of Liverpool's central London campus are threatening strike action in a row over redundancy pay-offs. Staff at the campus, which will close…

  • 24 January 2020

    External examiners resigning in protest at universities' failings over disputes The Guardian reported yesterday that senior academics are refusing to act as external…

  • 13 December 2019

    Second report from Joint Expert Panel on USS released UCU has welcomed the second report from the Joint Expert Panel (JEP) looking at the Universities Superannuation…

  • 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 November 2019

    Vice-chancellor calls on vice-chancellors to pay more to resolve pensions dispute Last week a vice-chancellor broke ranks to argue that universities can afford…

  • 8 November 2019

    Sixty universities to be hit with eight days of strikes this month Sixty UK universities will be hit with eight days of strike action from Monday 25 November to…

  • 4 November 2019

    Strikes scheduled to start on Tuesday 5 November at Nottingham College have been suspended at an eleventh hour meeting of UCU members at the college. Staff  were…