Education
25 February 2018
University vice chancellors are claiming millions in expenses to swan around in fancy hotels and posh restaurants while workers face savage attacks on their pensions
23 February 2018
Workers at three east London schools struck together yesterday—with lively picket lines joined by parents, teachers, and support workers
22 February 2018
Marches, demonstrations and student walkouts marked the first day of a university workers’ strike today.
22 February 2018
Striking UCU member Josh Hollands explains what's behind the universities strike today.
22 February 2018
Universities across Britain were covered with pickets today as UCU union members struck over pensions.
22 February 2018
Around 40,000 university workers will strike today in the opening shot of a battle for education
21 February 2018
Workers and parents are united in this battle for education
20 February 2018
This week we’ll be taking part in the biggest strike in Britain since the junior doctors’ strike. And we plan escalating strikes over the next three weeks, ending with a five-day strike in March.
20 February 2018
University bosses’ assault on pensions will hit workers hard, and is the latest attack aimed at turning education into a profitable business. That's why over 40,000 workers plan 14 days of strikes from 22 February. UCU union members speak to Sadie Robinson
20 February 2018
A large group of parents turned out to protest against Academies Enterprise Trust (AET) at St Helen’s Primary in Barnsley as the school reopened after half term on Monday.
14 February 2018
UCU union members across 16 colleges in England are set to hold a two-day strike starting on 28 February.
13 February 2018
Workers at Cumberland School in Newham, east London, struck on Thursday of last week against a plan to turn their school into an academy.
13 February 2018
Workers are rushing to join the UCU union ahead of a series of escalating strikes set to begin in dozens of universities next Thursday.
12 February 2018
Tory cuts to school funding have caused thousands of job cuts across England.
12 February 2018
UCU union members are fighting attacks on their USS pension scheme that would slash its value and give workers no guaranteed income in retirement.
23 January 2018
NEU education union members at Avenue School in Newham, east London, were set to strike on Wednesday and Thursday of next week against academisation
22 January 2018
The UCU union has called 14 days of escalating strikes across 61 universities starting next month. A two-day walkout is set to begin on or around 22 February, followed by three-day, four-day and five-day walkouts in the following weeks.
18 January 2018
40,000 UCU union members are being balloted for strikes over pensions. The ballot ends on Friday.
16 January 2018
A ballot of UCU union members for strikes over pensions was set to end on Friday. Workers at some 68 universities across Britain are balloting to stop an attack on their USS pension scheme.
09 January 2018
More than 40 school cleaners in six schools in Hackney, east London, have voted to strike by 100 percent on a 60 percent turnout.