2 June 2021

Workplace round-up

Around 1,300 staff at the University of Liverpool began three weeks of strike action on 24 May, in a fight over cuts to jobs in the faculty of health and life sciences, said the University and College Union

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9 December 2020

Further education workers win pay rise in Wales

Workers in further education in Wales have won a long overdue pay increase. This will mean we are not left behind by the pay rise that was announced for school teachers in the summer.

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2 December 2020

East London teachers strike in support of victimised union rep

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14 October 2020

Students speak out: isolation and uncertainty reign

'Hollow and empty' higher education: Hollow and empty is how I would describe the first week of my higher education.

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14 October 2020

University workers ballot for action against in-person teaching

University workers are escalating disputes over unsafe campus reopening plans as cases soar in university cities.

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9 September 2020

Reinstate Richie Venton

Trade unionists held a solidarity demo outside of Ikea Braehead in Glasgow, demanding the reinstatement of sacked Usdaw rep Richie Venton, and the reinstatement of sick workers' wages.

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19 February 2020

Sixth-form strikers stand firm for increased funding

Picket line reports from Leeds and east London

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29 January 2020

University and College Union: Pensions, pay and conditions dispute reach a crucial stage

As we go to press, a crucial meeting of the University and College Union (UCU) higher education committee is set to take place to decide the future strategy in the ongoing disputes over pensions, pay and conditions.

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4 December 2019

UCU strikes: more determined than ever

At Cardiff University, every strike day UCU members have picketed over a dozen university buildings and held strike rallies of hundreds. Students have been involved on the strike committee

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27 November 2019

Uni strike takes fight to bosses

Socialist Party members and Socialist Students visited UCU picket lines at universities

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27 November 2019

Sixth-form college strikes: 'Sticking two fingers up at the Tories'

Socialist Party members in Leicester gave support to striking National Education Union members at Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I sixth-form College.

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13 November 2019

UCU strikes: Union means business in fight against employers

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) have backed strike action in two separate ballots - one over pensions and one over pay and conditions in higher education.

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Socialist Students in Sheffield supporting the strike of University and College Union (UCU) staff, 20.2.20, photo by Sheffield SP

13 November 2019

Fighting government cuts to sixth form colleges: Picket line at City & Islington sixth form college, London, 12.2.20

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6 November 2019

UCU votes for pay and pension strikes

The University and College Union (UCU) has decisively voted to back strike action in two separate ballots over pensions, pay and conditions in higher education.

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23 October 2019

NEU members strike against sixth-form funding cuts

"The funding for school kids has been cut catastrophically, but the cuts for students aged 16-18 have been even worse," said Alan Clifford, National Education Union (NEU) teachers' rep at Notre Dame Sixth Form College, to Socialist Party members visiting their picket line.

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9 October 2019

York freshers success

The University of York freshers fair revealed an enthusiastic response to Socialist ideas. Queues of students lined up to hear about our chance to take down the Tories and fight for workers' control of society.

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18 September 2019

Nottingham College UCU - more strike action planned

Strikers are determined to defeat the employer's draconian contract - pay cuts for 20% of teachers and savage cuts in conditions

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4 September 2019

Nottingham college workers plan 15 days of walkouts

University and College Union (UCU) members at Nottingham College are to begin 15 days of strike action.

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3 July 2019

Stourbridge: Keep our college!

On 29 June, around 400 education workers, parents and supporters marched through Stourbridge to protest against the looming closure of the town's further education college.

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26 June 2019

Notts college contract dispute

More than 80 teachers would be £1,000 worse off in addition to increased teaching hours, removal of workload protections, and cuts in holiday and sick pay

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