Higher education

A line of orange-jacketed postal Royal Mail workers with placards saying 'I'm voting yes' to a strike
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New Royal Mail ballot + Unison HE ballot + round-up

Union members have to organise to win these important ballots
25 July 2022
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Protest at Roehampton over university jobs cuts

And attacks at Queen Mary
12 July 2022
UCU union members at Richmond College bin job loss papers. They are stuffing them into a a box marked "recycle here"
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UCU union backs continuing resistance, and trans rights

Delegates showed they backed a continuing battle
03 June 2022
A group of strikers with UCU union banners.
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It’s time for a revolt against UCU union leaders

A marking boycott began this week
23 May 2022
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South London’s Roehampton university could sack half of its academic staff

And college strikes in the north west
20 May 2022
20 UCU union strikers with placards such as "Equal work, equal pay"
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Betrayals by UCU leaders + Scottish lecturers dig in to win on pay

The UCU leadership is strangling the dispute
16 May 2022
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University workers resist UCU union leader Jo Grady’s attempts to thwart action

Grady repeatedly resisted escalation
29 April 2022
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Get behind the Dundee university workers’ strikes

Low-paid workers fight for pensions
22 April 2022
UCU union members on strike hold a banner reading 'End the gender pay gap'
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University workers must confront union leaders’ surrender

Keep up strikes and other action
15 April 2022
Eight smiling and confident-looking pickets at Westminster university
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University votes show there is still mood for action

Workers don't want to retreat
11 April 2022
15 UCU members at Liverpool university with UCU placards
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University strikes are at a key turning point

Vote for strikes demand a new strategy
29 March 2022
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University strikes can win—but they’re at a critical stage

Strikes over pensions, pay and equalities
24 March 2022
UCU strike
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Thousands of workers at 68 universities will return to the picket lines

Workers fight for pay and pensions
15 March 2022
Dozens of students listen to speeches
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Students back university strikers with battle at crucial point

Students joined a day of action
02 March 2022
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University strikers say step up the action to UCU union

UCU union fights over equalities
01 March 2022
Strikers, one with a pink bobble hat, with placards such as 9 percent disability pay gap, 17 percent race pay gap
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Build the university strikes and pressure union leaders for more

Day four saw continuing solid action
17 February 2022
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‘Escalating action’ is way forward, say university strikers on day two of walkout

UCU union members fight for pensions
15 February 2022
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Solid picket lines on first day of university strike

Walkout at 44 universities
14 February 2022
Around 20 UCU members on strike at SOAS university in central London on 1 December 2021. In the foreground some are holding placards demanding equality for disabled, black and women workers.
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Thousands to join university strikes

University workers in UCU union to strike
08 February 2022
Around 20 UCU union members outside Soas in central London, they wave placards on the gender pay gap
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Build the university strikes — and keep up pressure on UCU union leaders

Strikes at 68 universities
28 January 2022
Six pickets with UCU union placardsplacards
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Bigger national strikes possible in universities after reballot results

Reballots have opened the way to bigger struggle
18 January 2022
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Token strikes won’t win university battles

Strikes in universities have power to take on the bosses
09 November 2021
Socialist Review Archive

Lecturers head back into battle

Tens of thousands of university workers are set to go on strike this month. Michael Bradley looks at the roots of the dispute and the debates about strategy within the movement.
05 February 2020
Socialist Review Archive

A new attack on higher education

The setting up of the Office for Students, chaired by Michael Barber, signals that a new neoliberal assault on higher education is underway. This assault was prepared for by the government’s criticism of vice chancellors’ pay excesses, as if any Tory government has an objection to excessive pay for bosses! This was just a preliminary...
29 January 2018