By Vanessa Clarke & Larissa Tairo
BBC News
Staff astatine 150 universities crossed the UK are taking portion successful a bid of strikes.
The enactment is being taken implicit pay, moving conditions and pension cuts.
When are assemblage unit striking?
They volition beryllium walking retired connected 3 days: 24, 25 and 30 November.
Staff successful Northern Ireland besides began concern enactment abbreviated of a onslaught connected 18 November, and successful England, Wales and Scotland connected 23 November.
This volition see not covering for absent colleagues, refusing to marque up for enactment mislaid to onslaught enactment and moving to rule.
A bid of strikes were besides held earlier this twelvemonth and past year.
Will lectures beryllium cancelled?
It is unclear however severely tutorials and lectures volition beryllium affected, arsenic national members don't person to accidental whether they volition beryllium striking.
The University and College Union (UCU) says the interaction volition alteration betwixt institutions, but they bash expect immoderate cancellations.
It says astir 2.5 cardinal students whitethorn beryllium affected by the strikes.
Universities UK (UUK), which represents 140 universities, hopes the interaction volition beryllium limited.
It said universities volition minimise disruption and galore volition alert students if they volition beryllium affected by onslaught action. This could be by email, connected assemblage websites and connected campus.
Some universities volition besides widen deadlines and permission libraries, machine rooms and pupil services open. Some whitethorn besides reschedule teaching.
If students consciousness the measures enactment successful spot aren't bully enough, they tin kick utilizing their university's complaints procedure.
The National Union of Students is backing the strikes.
Why are assemblage unit striking?
Some are striking implicit wage and conditions, others implicit pensions. Some are striking implicit both.
On pay, the national has demanded:
- a wage emergence of ostentation (RPI) +2% oregon 12%, whichever is the higher
- action to extremity the usage of zero hours and impermanent contracts
- action to tackle "excessive workloads" resulting successful hours of "unpaid work"
The quality implicit pensions began much than a decennary ago. It was reignited by a valuation of a pension strategy utilized by world unit - the Universities Superannuation Scheme.
The national said this valuation was "flawed" due to the fact that it took spot astatine the commencement of the pandemic, "when planetary markets were crashing" and recorded a shortage of £14.1bn. It says the strategy was much precocious recovered to person a surplus of £1.8bn.
It said the mean subordinate "will suffer 35% from their guaranteed aboriginal status income". For those astatine the opening of their careers "the losses are successful the hundreds of thousands of pounds", it said.
The national is demanding employers revoke the cuts and reconstruct benefits.
How overmuch bash lecturers get paid?
A committee including commercialized unions and the Universities and College Employers Association (UCEA) meets and decides connected immoderate changes to assemblage workers' wage each year.
Most universities opt successful to the negotiations, but they don't person to - they tin marque their ain decisions connected however overmuch to wage staff. The 22/23 wage scale was implemented successful August.
The national says a 3rd of world unit are connected a impermanent contract.
What bash assemblage employers say?
The UCEA, says immoderate summation successful wage "puts jobs astatine risk". Some 30% of universities are already successful deficit.
At universities which introduced wage recommendations successful August determination was "an uplift of up to 9% for those connected the lowest points" of the standard and a 3% summation for each different staff, it said. Many unit besides benefited from yearly wage increments.
On pensions, the UUK said it is moving with the national up of the adjacent valuation of the pension scheme. It said that without the changes introduced employees would person had to wage overmuch much successful contributions.
Which universities are striking?
In total, 62 universities volition spot strikes implicit some wage and conditions and pensions:
- Aberdeen, The University of
- Aberystwyth University
- Aston University
- Bangor University
- Bath, University of
- Birkbeck, University of London
- Birmingham, The University of
- Bradford, University of
- Bristol, University of
- Brunel University
- Cambridge, University of
- Cardiff University
- City, University of London
- Courtauld Institute of Art
- Dundee, The University of
- Durham University
- East Anglia, University of
- Edinburgh, University of
- Essex, University of
- Exeter, University of
- Glasgow, University of
- Goldsmiths, University of London
- Heriot-Watt University
- Hull, The University of
- Keele University
- Kent, The University of
- King's College London
- Lancaster, University of
- Leeds, The University of
- Leicester, University of
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
- Liverpool, University of
- London School of Economics
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Loughborough University
- Manchester, The University of
- Newcastle University
- Nottingham, The University of
- Open University
- Oxford, University of
- Queen Mary, University of London
- Queen's University Belfast
- Royal Holloway, University of London
- Royal Veterinary College, University of London
- Salford, The University of
- Senate House, University of London
- Sheffield, The University of
- SOAS, University of London
- Southampton, University of
- St Andrews, University of
- St George's, University of London
- Stirling, The University of
- Strathclyde, University of
- Suffolk, University of
- Surrey, University of
- Sussex, University of
- Swansea University
- Ulster University
- University College London
- University of Wales Trinity Saint David
- Warwick, University of
- York, University of
Five volition spot strikes implicit pensions only:
- Cranfield University
- Imperial College London
- Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
- Reading, University of
- SAMS astatine University of the Highlands and Islands
Another 83 volition spot strikes implicit wage and moving conditions only:
- Abertay University
- Anglia Ruskin University
- Arts University Bournemouth
- Bath Spa University
- Bedfordshire, University of
- Bishop Grosseteste University
- Bolton, The University of
- Bournemouth University
- Brighton, University of
- Buckinghamshire New University
- Canterbury Christ Church University
- Cardiff Metropolitan University
- Central Lancashire, University of
- Chester, University of
- Chichester, University of
- Coventry University
- Cumbria, University of
- De Montfort University
- Derby, University of
- East London, University of
- Edge Hill University
- Edinburgh Napier University
- Falmouth University
- Glasgow Caledonian University
- Glasgow School of Art
- Gloucestershire, University of
- Greenwich, University of
- Harper Adams University
- Hertfordshire, University of
- Huddersfield, The University of
- Kingston University
- Leeds Arts University
- Leeds Beckett University
- Leeds Trinity University
- Lincoln, University of
- Liverpool Hope University
- Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA)
- Liverpool John Moores University
- London Metropolitan University
- London South Bank University
- Manchester Metropolitan University
- Middlesex University
- Newman University
- Northampton, The University of
- Northumbria University
- Norwich University of the Arts
- Oxford Brookes University
- Plymouth Marjon University
- Plymouth, University of
- Portsmouth, University of
- Queen Margaret University
- Robert Gordon University
- Roehampton University
- Rose Bruford College
- Royal Academy of Music
- Royal Agricultural University
- Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- Royal College of Art
- Royal College of Music
- Royal Northern College of Music
- Sheffield Hallam University
- Solent University
- South Wales, University of
- St Mary's University College, Belfast
- St Mary's University, Twickenham
- Staffordshire University
- Stranmillis University College
- Sunderland, University of
- Teesside, University of
- Trinity Laban
- UCA University for the Creative Arts
- University College Birmingham
- University of the Arts London
- West London, University of
- West of England, University of the
- West of Scotland, University of the
- Westminster, University of
- Winchester, The University of
- Wolverhampton, University of
- Worcester, University of
- Wrexham Glyndwr University
- Writtle University College
- York St John University
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