The UK’s largest higher education trade union will ballot academics next week over whether to take industrial action over pay disputes, it had been announced.
The University and College Union (UCU) launched the ballot in response to proposed changes to the university sector’s largest pension scheme, the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS). It was announced last Friday that the fund may convert to an entirely ‘defined contribution’ fund, which the UCU believes is a less secure form of investment.
The action proposed by the UCU includes a series of strikes by lecturers, as well as refusals to reschedule classes or substitute for […]
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