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22 January 2026
UCU today condemned the lockout and withholding of staff pay at the University of Sheffield following lawful industrial action Staff at the university took 16 days…
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14 October 2025
Over 65,000 UCU members at universities across the UK will be balloted to take strike action in a fight to protect jobs, wages and working conditions, the union…
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10 October 2025
Universities have announced cuts equivalent to over 15,000 jobs in the last year.
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2 October 2025
Staff at Imperial College London will take ten days of strike action over the next two months in a row over pay and conditions, the University and College Union…
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4 March 2025
UK higher education faces an unprecedented crisis, UCU declared today, with new data compiled by the union showing over 5,000 jobs at risk. The announcement comes…
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27 May 2023
UCU members are about to become history makers with a pension win that will set the standard for all trade unions, said the union's general secretary Jo Grady.
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31 October 2022
UCU slammed plans by Birkbeck, University of London to sack 140 staff this academic year, including up to a quarter of teaching staff, and up to a third of administrative…
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20 May 2022
UCU urged vice-chancellors to revoke pension cuts and meet staff demands for improvements to pay and working conditions as it confirmed that more than 20 universities…
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31 March 2022
UCU today demanded vice-chancellors order their employer body UUK to revoke brutal cuts to pensions after a drastic improvement to the USS finances was revealed…
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22 February 2022
UCU has told university employers to expect more industrial action, including a marking and assessment boycott, as UUK's proposals that would lead to devastating…
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