Stuka
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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2018 7:37 pm Post subject: Massive strikes set for UK’s major universities |
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The University and College Union has announced that its members at 61 universities will go ahead with 14 days of escalating strike action over a four-week period.
The industrial action is in protest against changes to UK higher education’s biggest pension scheme, a plan that would reportedly make members £10,000 a year worse off, in retirement than under the current set-up.
The strike will start with a two-day walkout on 22 and 23 February. The days will continue to increase to strikes of three, four and five days in subsequent weeks (26-28 February, 5-8 March and 12-16 March).
“Staff who have delivered the international excellence universities boast of are understandably angry at efforts to slash their pensions. They feel let down by vice-chancellors who seem to care more about defending their own pay and perks than the rights of their staff,” UCU general secretary Sally Hunt said.
https://www.studyinternational.com/news/uk-pension-university-2018/ |
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