UK university staff to ballot in October over pay and pensions

UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE UNION (UCU) PRESS RELEASE Embargoed until 00:01hrs Wednesday 22 September · University employers are cutting USS members’ guaranteed annual pension by 35% · University staff also in dispute over spiralling workloads, below inflation pay offers and insecure contracts · UCU to ballot from Monday 18 October unless employers meet its demands · Ballot to close in first week of November for action before end of the year · National Union of Students (NUS) come out to back staff actionThe University and College Union (UCU) has today (Wednesday)