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Delegates met in Milton Keynes to tackle a wide-ranging agenda

Five Universities in the South East taking strike action on 2 and 3 October 2023.

Support staff at Leeds Trinity University and the University of Leeds are to stage coordinated strike action, along with 18 other universities in England and Scotland, for at least two days in their ongoing dispute about pay, says UNISON today (Thursday). More than 5,000 staff belonging to the union from the 20 universities could take […]

Thursday 17 August saw day 2 of the strike by professional services staff at the University of Sussex. Here’s what happened.

Solidarity and best wishes to everyone taking action for fair pay! https://twitter.com/UoLUnison/status/1691768584446280067 Find out more about the […]

Industrial action will take place during ‘clearing week’, which will disrupt the process of filling courses with vacant spots, the union says.

The results are in for the higher education strike ballot that ran from 31 May to 31 July – and 4 higher education institutions in the South West have met the threshold for action.

Support staff at the University of Bedfordshire have won an extra five days’ paid holiday, says UNISON today. It follows a long campaign by the union to highlight what is says is the unfair difference in annual leave entitlement between support staff, who work in professional services, and academics. From September, full-time professional services staff […]

“Our members, who include cleaners, caterers, domestic staff, security staff, library staff and administrators, are the bedrock of the higher education […]

Three more days of strike action at the University of Winchester follow seven taken in June this year.