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24 March 2025
Staff at the University of Kent are striking every day this week over management failure to rule out compulsory job cuts, announced UCU today. Staff be on strike…
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3 May 2024
The majority of further education college staff want an end to Ofsted inspections, a new UCU report shows.
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5 September 2023
Strike ballots open at 89 college employers today as a UCU survey of further education employees shows a workforce in crisis.
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24 February 2023
The five unions UCU, UNISON, Unite, EIS and GMB, representing staff working in UK higher education confirmed that talks via the conciliation service Acas will continue…
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21 June 2022
UCU today condemned the latest pay offer of 2.5% from the Association of Colleges (AoC), made at a meeting yesterday, as 'totally unacceptable.' UCU said the refusal…
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20 June 2022
Staff at colleges and universities across the United Kingdom are doing the equivalent of at least two days unpaid work every week, according to a report that lays…
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20 May 2022
A damning investigation into Covid-19 safety at Burnley College after the tragic death of teacher Donna Coleman found that 'health and safety laws...were broken'…
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3 May 2022
UCU said Northampton University needs to address a toxic work culture that led to a staff member being bullied out of their job. The union was responding to an…
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11 April 2022
Staff at thirty-six UK universities have voted in favour of strike action in a dispute over pay and working conditions which could see higher education hit by further…
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11 April 2022
UCU has condemned the UK government over the removal of vital covid safety measures such as free testing in post-16 education and called on employers to 'step up'…
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