Strike looms as universities seek end to USS defined benefit deal
University and College Union will ballot members on a national walkout over plans to move staff to defined contribution pension scheme
University and College Union will ballot members on a national walkout over plans to move staff to defined contribution pension scheme
Employers and trade unions are again at odds over higher education's biggest pension scheme, this time disagreeing about a consultation with members on major changes.The consultation, a statutory...
Don’t blame university support staff for not joining the strike over pensions – it is because too often they are left out of the conversation, says Fiona Whelan
Experts predict 'unsustainable' USS fund will close within 10 years. Jack Grove reports
The University and College Union has called for a full ballot on changes to higher education’s largest pension scheme after 96 per cent of voters in its online “referendum” rejected the employers’...
Calls have been renewed for a national ballot on proposed changes to the sector’s largest pension scheme after it emerged that £2.9 million in bonuses were paid to investment staff.
The overwhelming rejection of proposed changes to the USS by scheme members in the UCU is not surprising. The biggest change would be the introduction of a two-tier system, in which a career-average...
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Higher education committee says walkouts should be followed by marking boycott and ‘escalation’ of action if settlement cannot be reached on pay and pensions
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It is hard not to chuckle when reading that employers prefer a "narrative" consultation to one where votes for and against pension changes are actually counted ("Pensions powwow set to begin as union...
Sally Hunt's article "Divided we fall" (7 October) fails to recognise that the proposed changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme are the minimum required to ensure that an affordable,...
We write as senior academics to express our concern about the proposal from Universities UK to end guaranteed pension payments in the Universities Superannuation Scheme (“UUK reforms ‘will cut USS...
Walkouts to escalate over February and March