Higher education

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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