Accounting tricks and pension deficits
We have been told that the Universities Superannuation Scheme's deficit has grown so large in the past year as to threaten its survival ("Deficit puts pension scheme in jeopardy", News, 13 September...
We have been told that the Universities Superannuation Scheme's deficit has grown so large in the past year as to threaten its survival ("Deficit puts pension scheme in jeopardy", News, 13 September...
In "Candid Cantor" (Letters, 31 March), Daniel Vulliamy misreads Brian Cantor's letter of 17 March on the Universities Superannuation Scheme and quotes him out of context. As Cantor points out, the...
Anthony Forster criticises failure of negotiators to ‘embrace principled compromise’
Fury as chair suggests employers could question UCU's involvement in the USS. John Morgan writes
Current approach is ‘overly restrictive’ and does ‘not appear appropriate for an open, strong scheme’
Proposals to remove the retirement age should be good news for the academic superannuation pot, but Darrel Ince warns that there are downsides as well
As a delegate to the University and College Union congress from the branch that moved the "work-to-contract" motion for staff in the Universities Superannuation Scheme, I would like to address some...
The refusal of the employers to negotiate on changes to the USS and a national jobs agreement indicates a "no-compromise" position. They clearly want to take advantage of the government's...
Warwick statistician Jane Hutton attacks lack of transparency over her dismissal from board of Universities Superannuation Scheme
Pension fund’s deficit is likely to be worse than feared rather than better, says Sir David Eastwood
Lecturers from post-1992 universities in London are joining school teachers in a walk-out to protest against changes to their pensions.
Academics may be asked not to apply for jobs, give lectures or conduct external examining at Trinity
Strikes threaten to spill into the new year, as little progress made in dispute
Final-salary deals still in balance as employers and unions fail to agree. John Morgan reports