Staff at 150 UK universities will strike over pay and pensions this month in what unions warned will be the largest ever co-ordinated industrial action to hit higher education.
The University and College Union on Tuesday announced that more than 70,000 staff would walk out on November 24, 25 and 30, unless employers made “fast and improved offers”.
The strike is the latest skirmish in a long standing battle over stagnating wages, insecure contracts and cuts to retirement benefits at UK universities. It is also part of wave of national walkouts as rising inflation squeezes workers’ living standards across a number of sectors from health to transport.
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