Higher education unions

Union threatens action over subtraction of a day’s pay for a two-hour walkout

Union seeks court clearance to bill lecturer in failed anti‑Semitism claim

Marking boycott called off as 2 per cent offer accepted

The University and College Union has officially called off its marking boycott after members voted to accept a new pay deal from employers

Marking boycott suspended as union warns accepting deal would represent a ‘damaging defeat’

The University and College Union has agreed to postpone its planned boycott of marking after employers made a 2 per cent pay offer for next year.

Scottish union angry that current dispute not on agenda

As strike force falters, some UCU members and industrial relations experts think escalation is needed

Tristram Hunt, Labour’s shadow education secretary, has been criticised by party colleagues after crossing a University and College Union picket line

Staff at 11 higher education institutions are to walk out for a whole day in a protest of what they believe is “unlawfully deducted” pay.

University staff have walked out for the fifth time over this year’s “miserly” 1 per cent pay offer.

But law might not be on its side in its effort to prevent docking of full day’s pay, solicitor says

Thousands take part despite pay threat, UCU says

V-c acknowledges ‘agonising’ decision faced by staff over two-hour walkout

Several universities are threatening to deduct a full day’s pay for anyone taking part in a two-hour walkout, a union has claimed

Three two-hour strikes aimed at disrupting teaching at UK universities have been announced

The University and College Union has called on the government to force universities to reveal why they award large pay rises to senior staff

UCU fears more support staff will be forced out to cover REF recruitment costs

Lectures and seminars are likely to be cancelled across the UK as university staff hold a second national walk-out over pay.

Working Time Regulations not as restrictive as UCU thinks, lawyer argues

A second university has threatened academics with a loss of pay over working to rule, Times Higher Education has discovered. 

Unions representing higher education staff have announced a second nationwide strike for 3 December.

A university threatened staff that it would dock them a day’s pay if they did not work unpaid overtime, it has emerged.

Only threat of further strikes will force Ucea to renegotiate pay, unions say

But employers dismiss potential impact of one-day strike

University staff will hold a one-day strike on 31 October in a row over pay

Nearly two-thirds of University and College Union members voting in a ballot have backed strike action in a row over pay.

UCU criticises ‘gun to head’ of 2,800 non-academic staff

Staff at the University of Liverpool will ballot for strike action over plans to alter employees’ terms and conditions.

The University of Liverpool has been accused of “putting a gun to the head” of almost 3,000 staff who a union says face losing their jobs unless they accept altered working terms and conditions

Lecturers’ union agrees to trim national committee but not on scale called for by general secretary Sally Hunt

Scholars go hungry as a result of casualisation, congress hears

Lecturers in the University and College Union have moved a step closer to taking industrial action after the union decided to urge members to reject a 1 per cent pay offer

Staff in higher education are being urged to reject a “disappointing” 1 per cent final pay offer by universities.

Arguments intensify over union’s austerity plans in run-up to congress

Cut on cards as union looks to live within its means

The latest round of job cuts at the University of Salford could see up to 87 professional service staff made redundant, with the institution blaming a fall in student numbers under the new system.

Union takes on management over ‘academic annex’ reforms

Staff costs may be slashed to plug budget hole