further education

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College workers back national fight over pay and workloads

UCU union’s annual congress backed a ballot for action across colleges in England
30 May 2026
Further education workers hold up signs saying 'fair pay for college worker'
Trade Unions

Unions round-up: Fight is on against austerity cuts in further education

Workers fight low pay, unbearable workloads and austerity
02 December 2025
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Unions round-up: Scottish local government strikers battle against low pay

Strike to win
29 October 2024
Striking workers on the picket line at Croydon college this week
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Bosses insult FE teachers with miserly 2.5 percent

Workers in further education offered just 2.5 percent.
15 October 2024
Eight people on the EIS picket line illustrating an article about the Scottish college strike
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Scottish college lecturers strike against poverty pay

Plus: strike ballot at Glasgow school
22 May 2024
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Keep building struggle after UCU general secretary re-elected

Jo Grady only just survived criticism of her record
01 March 2024
A picture of a picket line during the Scottish college strike
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Scottish college workers stage solid strike over pay

Escalating the action can win
29 February 2024
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Back Saira Weiner for UCU general secretary

The UCU Left candidate
23 January 2024
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Round-up: Schools out in Brighton and Birmingham + new strikes at Barts NHS Trust

Plus justice for Jay Abatan
23 January 2024
UCU university Grady
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Why UCU strike vote fell short—plus Barnet social work and Scottish local government

Why the higher education strike has ended plus round up
07 November 2023
EIS union activists
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Scottish further education battle hots up–plus NUJ strikes

Union prepares for action as Scottish SNP government digs in on pay
19 September 2023
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Chesterfield Eriks strike + education resistance + taking on ISS outsourcers

Battles over pay across Britain
12 September 2023
On the EIS picket line
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Battle is on to save FE sector and win on pay in Scottish colleges

They are fighting for a pay rise
12 September 2023
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Major education battles in Brighton and Edinburgh

Strikes to defend jobs and union rights
04 September 2023
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Battles in further education colleges and universities

89 colleges in strike ballots
29 August 2023
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Edinburgh College strikers are out to stop victimisation and defend education

Walkouts begin on Monday to stop attacks on Kevin Scally
24 August 2023
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Glasgow college lecturers strike against job cuts

EIS-Fela union members walk out
01 June 2023
EIS workers striking in April
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EIS pay strike ballots sweep across Scottish colleges + Defend Lee Fowler

Bosses have offered EIS members just 2 percent
03 April 2023
A large crown of people on strike stand on the steps of Lewisham college
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Reports round-up: First steps towards pay strike in FE colleges

News in brief from workers’ struggles
07 March 2023
University strike: King's College pickets with placards such as 'If our pay doesn't rise we will'
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HE workers in Unison build pay battles + round-up

Battles could spread after re-ballots
28 November 2022
Line of workers with large red Unite union flags and banner 'Solidarity with the strikes''
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Pay fights in Glasgow, Liverpool, North Sea and the colleges

Action at coffin makers, cracker makers, by rig workers, and in education
07 November 2022
A large picket line of workers and students at Blackburn college
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Education round-up: London colleges in new three-day walkout

Plus pay ballots in universities and schools
18 October 2022
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Keep up college strikes to win on pay

Action at over 20 colleges
18 October 2022
A dozen workers stand outside an entrance and smile at the camera
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Further education support staff walk out in pay dispute

They're battling a pay cut
11 October 2022