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Workplace and TU campaigns / Lecturers
2 May 2012
UCU joins 10 May strike - student solidarity needed
Lecturers and academic staff in most of the UK's universities and colleges will be joining other public sector workers on strike on 10 May against attacks on pensions, writes Edmund Schluessel, Cardiff University UCU, personal capacity and Cardiff University student.
NUT and UCU strike action in London on 28 March 2012, photo Senan
28 March 2012
London teachers and lecturers strike to defend pensions
Teachers in the NUT and lecturers in some sectors of the UCU have taken strike action on 28 March as part of the continuing battle to defend public sector pensions. During their demo, PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka spoke to the Socialist
13 February 2012
Lecturers in colleges and 'post-92' universities will join 28 March pensions strike
Post-16 education is currently under a serious onslaught from the Con-Dem coalition. Students are suffering from cuts to EMA in further education and £9,000 annual fees in higher education, while staff, represented by the University and College Union are facing attacks on their pensions
Waltham Forest teachers and lecturers on the 30 June coordinated strike action by the PCS civil service union and NUT, ATL and UCU teaching unions, photo Senan
8 February 2012
Two years ago, University and College Union (UCU) honorary treasurer Alan Carr promised conference that UCU would deliver "the fight of our lives" if the government, whether Labour or Tory, attacked lecturers' pensions, writes Edmund Schluessel.
31 August 2011
A warning from the FE sector - hands off our education!
The academies project was started by Tony Blair's New Labour government, but now the Con-Dems are 'fast tracking' it...
7 July 2011
Strike against pay cuts and redundancies at Leeds College of Building
University and College Union members mounted a picket outside the Leeds College of Building site on North Street in Leeds yesterday, striking against jobs cuts, demotions and pay cuts
6 July 2011
No to McNulty: The annual meeting of rail union RMT has endorsed plans for a massive national campaign, including a cross-industry strike ballot if necessary, to resist any attempts by the government to roll out its McNulty Rail Review assault on Britain's railways...
22 June 2011
Barnsley lecturers fight job cuts
UCU members at Barnsley College were on strike on 17 June against attacks by bullying management that could see a quarter of the academic staff lose their jobs, writes Ian Pattison, Yorkshire Socialist Party.
17 June 2011
Coleg Morgannwg: Victory over victimisation
UCU members at Coleg Morgannwg announced today that college management have withdrawn disciplinary charges against lecturer and UCU Cymru president Guy Stoate
15 June 2011
Huge votes in defence of pensions, jobs and services: Civil servants, teachers and lecturers balloted to strike on 30 June against the Con-Dems' attacks on public sector pensions and public services
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