UCU higher education disputes: new strike dates and reballoting arrangements

Your elected representatives on UCU's higher education committee (HEC) met on 25 February and agreed the next steps in our campaigns. Details of a new wave of strikes with two groups of branches taking action in different weeks can be found here. 

At that meeting, HEC also decided to immediately renew our mandate in order to be able to take further action after the current ballot mandate expires on 3 May. 

Ballots over USS and the Four Fights are separate but will run at the same time, meaning some members will have two ballots to complete, others one. The timetable for action on both USS and Four Fights is: 

• Wednesday 16 March: ballots open 
• Friday 8 April: ballots close
• Wednesday 20 April: UCU higher education sector conference (Four Fights)
• Wednesday 27 April: UCU higher education sector conference (USS)

Click here for full balloting details.

Please look out for your ballot pack in the post from Wednesday next week and talk to your colleagues to remind them. 

Yours in solidarity, 

Jo Grady
UCU general secretary