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Pay Delegates to UCU conference recognised the enormous assault that lecturers are facing on their jobs and pay. They argued that these things are part of a wider attack on education and that every attack must be resisted.

The lecturers’ UCU congress, like every other trade union conference this year, was shaped by tumultuous events in the outside world.

A key debate at the UCU’s higher education sector conference was over how to fight attacks on the USS pension scheme that includes lecturers in older universities.

Members of the UCU union at Sheffield College took part in six days of strikes last week.

The UCU union goes into its Congress this weekend in the midst of several national disputes and on the back of a national strike on 24 March.

UCU general secretary Sally Hunt explicitly told a meeting of branch officers on Friday of last week that our union will join coordinated strikes in June to defend our pensions.

Lecturers in the UCU union are preparing for strikes to defend their pensions.

UCU union members are balloting for strikes at South Tyneside College over jobs cuts and pay.

The lecturers’ UCU union will meet this week following recent strikes of more than 100,000 lecturers to defend jobs, pay and pensions.

UCU members at Sheffield College and the University of Stirling have voted to strike against job losses.

Lecturers in the UCU union at Liverpool Hope University were set to strike on Friday of this week over threatened job cuts.

UCU members in Scotland met on Friday of last week in the midst of disputes on jobs, pay and pensions.