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The fight to save jobs at the University of Leeds has led to a massive rise in membership of the UCU union.

The first of three special UCU union Holocaust Memorial meetings took place in Brighton yesterday, Monday 18 January.

Further and adult education lecturers in the UCU union have narrowly voted not to strike against a 1.5 percent pay offer.

Workers at the University of Leeds began a ballot for strike action on Monday of this week. The lecturers, in the UCU union, are facing a massive assault.

Elections are coming up for the national executive committee of the UCU lecturers’ union. They come at a time when we are facing the biggest onslaught on post-16 education in decades.

Further Education pay The UCU union’s further education committee (FEC) heard how devastating cuts of up to £340 million are due to hit the sector at its meeting on Friday of last week.

UCU union members in further education colleges will receive ballot papers from 11 December as the union begins a vote over pay.

Lecturers in the UCU union at Barnsley college have suspended planned strike action after college management agreed to negotiate over proposed changes to job descriptions that would lower lecturers’ grades and pay.

Over 200 workers packed into a UCU union meeting at Leeds university last week and voted overwhelmingly to back a ballot for industrial action against cuts. They also voted to show no confidence in the vice‑chancellor, Michael Arthur.

Lecturers in the UCU union at Barnsley College are set to begin a three-day strike on Friday 27 November in their dispute over the regrading of lecturer posts.

Members of the UCU lecturers’ union at the University of Westminster are set to strike on Friday of this week in a dispute over back pay.

Two hundred members of the lecturers UCU union at Barnsley College struck on Wednesday and Thursday of last week.