New university strikes from 21 March
After ten days of strikes across two disputes, ending 2 March, the University and College Union (UCU) leadership has called further strikes in the weeks beginning 21 and 28 March, with half the institutions out in each week. Action Short of a Strike continues in the 68 institutions involved in the disputes, one of which centres on massive cuts to future pensions, and the other on “Four Fights” around pay, workload, casualisation and equality. Management are still refusing to negotiate in the Four Fights dispute, and the threatened cuts to pensions were passed on the casting vote of the...