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Lecturers, librarians and researchers join picket lines as UCU says staff are at ‘breaking point’

70,000 union members start walkout on Thursday with Royal Mail also striking as industrial action across the country escalates

'If university vice-chancellors, like our own Professor Ian Greer, can't respond effectively and ethically to this matter, why are they paid such astronomical salaries?'

Nurses, civil servants, postal workers and charity staff are among those downing tools in a bitter winter of discontent as Rishi Sunak warns of 'challenging' months ahead

Postal workers could strike up until Christmas Eve if an agreement isn't reached

One of the biggest walkouts of the year will be held on Thursday

Universities in the UK are striking on 24, 25 and 30 November 2022, with action short of a strike beginning on 23 November. Around 70,000 university staff across 150 universities are taking industrial action, following a series of smaller strikes in recent years. These strikes may be the largest ever…

University and College Union expresses concern at what it says appear to be intimidatory tactics

Union says warning of 140 possible job losses could trash proud history of ‘distinctive’ institution

UNIVERSITY workers and students have missed mortgage payments, fallen into rent arrears and ran up huge credit card bills because they have not been…

University staff across the UK will go on strike later this month in a dispute over pay as the University and College Union (UCU) states that members will deliver 'the biggest picket lines in our history'