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Important developments on the USS pension scheme.

  • 24 July 2019

    UCU negotiators presented a rationale in support of proposals at the USS joint negotiating committee (JNC) this week. The document which summarises the proposals…

  • 22 July 2019

    UCU's general secretary-elect, Jo Grady, has updated members in higher education on the position of the employers on USS and the annual negotiations. As we head…

  • 1 July 2019

    In her latest message to HE members, UCU's general secretary-elect, Jo Grady, updates on the simultaneous strike ballots over pay and USS planned for September.…

  • 28 June 2019

    UCU's higher education committee (HEC) met today and set out a timetable for that ballot on USS pensions and also for a pay ballot to run at the same time. The…

  • 26 June 2019

    Professor Jane Hutton has appeared on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 outlining her concerns about governance failings at USS. Professor Hutton believes that…

  • 24 June 2019

    UCU's general secretary-elect, Jo Grady, has today updated members in higher education about the Universities Superannuation Scheme dispute and possible further…

  • 19 June 2019

    UCU has officially censured Trinity College, Cambridge and will call on higher education staff worldwide to boycott the institution unless it reverses its decision…

  • 7 June 2019

    UCU has written to 69 institutions in the USS scheme warning that if they fail to confirm by Wednesday 19 June that they will limit members' contributions to 8%,…

  • 4 June 2019

    UCU Congress has voted to call an industrial action ballot of USS branch members starting in September 2019 if the employers refuse to pay all the additional pension…

  • 23 May 2019

    Latest update on finalising the 2018 valuation and outcome of the latest joint negotiating meeting.