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A concerted campaign by UCU and Unison union members has averted the threat of major job losses at Doncaster college.

Lecturers in the UCU union in universities across Britain will begin balloting for industrial action over job cuts this week. The ballot follows a refusal by the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) to reach a national agreement with the unions to avoid redundancies in higher education.

Over 170 workers came to a trade union rally organised by the UCU lecturers’ union in central London on Thursday of last week that aimed to kickstart a united fight to defend jobs.

The UCU and Unison unions at London Metropolitan University are set to ballot for industrial action against planned job cuts.

Results of the UCU national executive and national officer elections were being released as Socialist Worker went to press.

As members of the University and College Union National Executive Committee, we would like to send solidarity greetings to the students in the 17 universities who have occupied their universities in protest over the Gaza crisis. This is the largest wave of occupations for over a quarter of a century. Too often, the media seek to portray this generation of students as ones who do not share the aspirations of the 1968 generation – and deride you as, "Generation Apathy". Your actions have decisively dispelled this myth.

Some 55 UCU union members from across the north west of England last week joined an inspiring conference in Manchester on Challenging the market in education.

Members of the UCU and Unison unions at London Metropolitan university are fighting attacks on their jobs.

The UCU lecturers’ union’s "IOU" pay implementation campaign will escalate on 5 February when 11 colleges will be taking strike action.

Members of the UCU lecturers’ union at 11 colleges have voted to strike on Thursday 5 February.

The UCU lecturers union will begin electing new national officers and members for its national executive committee at the beginning of February.

The UCU lecturers’ union at Nottingham Trent university has won a new union recognition agreement after three months of struggle.