First date of strike action by over 70,000 university staff announced

More than 70,000 university staff will begin 18 days of strike action next month it has been confirmed. Members of the University and College Union will stage their first walkout on Wednesday, February 1.

The union is in dispute with 150 universities across the country regarding pay, pensions and working conditions. They say they are demanding 'a meaningful pay rise to deal with the cost-of-living crisis.'The UCU claims that at a meeting on Monday the Universities and Colleges Employers Association , which represents university employers declined to improve its pay offer worth between four percent and five percent, which the union claims is 'not good enough.

UCU general secretary Jo Grady said: ‘Whilst the cost-of-living crisis rages, university vice-chancellors are dragging their feet and refusing to use the vast wealth in the sector to address over a decade of falling pay, rampant casualisation and massive pension cuts.

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