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24 October 2022
Over 70,000 university staff at 150 universities could now strike after UCU members overwhelmingly voted 'yes' to strike action in two historic national ballots.…
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13 February 2021
In her first speech to UCU's annual congress as general secretary, Jo Grady set out the challenges workers in prison, adult, further and higher education are facing…
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2 March 2020
UCU has written to new universities minister Michelle Donelan asking her to encourage universities to do more to end the wave of strikes at 74 UK universities.
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21 February 2020
Solid support for strikes as students call on university heads to do more to solve disputes Support for the biggest ever wave of strikes on university campuses…
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9 October 2019
UCU has today urged university employers to 'stop spinning and start talking' on pay and pensions.
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22 October 2018
UCU has criticised trade union laws for frustrating the wishes of members who voted for strike action over pay. In ballots which closed on Friday (19 October),…
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5 December 2017
Ulster University must pay 143 former staff 90 days' pay each after tribunal ruled it broke employment law in a 2015 redundancy process The staff left the university…
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16 March 2011
Students at eight Scottish universities will be hit with strike action tomorrow, despite last-minute efforts from UCU to get university employers' representatives…
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16 March 2011
Lancaster University lecturers planning to take part in a national strike over pensions have been issued with a chilling warning that, should they die on strike…
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16 March 2011
As employers refuse talks on eve of first UK-wide university strike action in five years, leaked letter says changes cannot go ahead without two sides agreeing…
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