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Important developments on the USS pension scheme.

  • 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.

  • 23 May 2019

    The chair of the USS Joint Expert Panel, Joanne Segars OBE, has issued an update on progress of the second phase of its work. The Panel would like to reiterate…

  • 10 May 2019

    UCU's Superannuation Working Group (SWG) has produced a report on USS to the higher education sector conference being held during UCU Congress 2019. The report…

  • 10 May 2019

    The Joint Expert Panel held the sixth and seventh meetings of their phase two work on 29 April and 2 May 2019. During these meetings the panel considered feedback…