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The executive of the UCU lecturers’ union met today (Friday) and voted three to one for a strike on 1 March over pensions and to invite other unions to join them.

The national executive of the UCU union was set to meet this Friday to determine its response to government proposals in the Teachers Pension Scheme (TPS).

UCU union members face battles over pensions, pay, jobs and privatisation.

Executive meetings of the University and College union have decided unanimously to escalate the current action around pensions in both the TPS and USS schemes.

The UCU lecturers’ union has voted unanimously to escalate action to defend public sector pensions.

Lecturers at Barnsley College are celebrating after their union rep, Graham Mustin, was offered a new job at the college.

Talks are due to start between the UCU union and the employers this month over proposed changes to university lecturers’ USS pension scheme.

Barnsley College UCU members voted overwhelmingly to escalate their long-running dispute into a five-day strike starting on Friday of next week.

The lecturers’ UCU union executive voted last week to join the opposition to government plans to let private firms get their hands on higher education.

Lecturers at Barnsley College struck on Thursday of last week in defence of Graham Mustin, one of their UCU union branch’s joint secretaries.

Workers at Middlesex university, north London, struck on Tuesday of this week in protest at planned job cuts. The action involved workers in both the UCU and Unison unions at the university.

UCU Left supporters held our AGM and conference last Saturday. Delegates discussed how to make the action short of a strike, which begins this week in pre-92 universities, effective. The action is against the imposition of worse terms for the pension scheme.