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Ballot papers will go out this week for the most important dispute in the UCU lecturers’ union’s history. There will be two simultaneous ballots, one on the employers’ current offer on a range of issues including jobs and pay, and one on the USS pension scheme.

This week, the UCU union is about to launch the first of five ballots in defence of pensions, jobs, conditions and pay in higher and further education.

Ballots for strikes will begin next week in the lecturers’ UCU union on jobs, pay and pensions.

The UCU union has confirmed dates for strike ballots in both the further and higher education sectors over jobs, pay and pensions.

The Times Higher Educational Supplement (THES) ran an article last week highlighting what it called "splits" in the UCU lecturers’ union.

Hundreds of UCU members joined students protesting outside parliament on Thursday. We were outraged at the police brutality—kettling people for hours in the cold, charging with horses, and causing many injuries with batons and shields.

Management at London Metropolitan University are planning savage job cuts that will hit the most vulnerable students.

The Higher Education Committee (HEC) of the UCU has unanimously agreed to ballot for industrial action over both the employers’ offer on pay and job security and the attack on university pensions.

The UCU lecturers’ union will hold a special sector conference in Manchester on 25 November.

UCU lecturers’ union branches have responded impressively to the call for a special conference in higher education to organise for action in defence of jobs, pay and pensions.

The lecturers’ UCU union’s further education Committee has backed the decision by delegates at a recent special pay conference to ballot as soon as possible over our rejection of the 0.2 percent pay offer from the Association of Colleges.

Delegates to the UCU union’s further education special pay conference last Saturday voted overwhelmingly to reject a 0.2 percent pay offer and ballot for strikes.