Campaigns

UCU is rising - dispute about pay, pensions and working conditions

UCU members in higher education have worked throughout the pandemic and generated record income for the sector only to be rewarded with attacks on their pay, working conditions, and pensions.

The truth is that we are not all in this together. While our members have seen their pay cut by 25% since 2009, university vice-chancellors and senior management have been collecting six-figure salaries.

Workers everywhere are rising up and saying enough is enough. The strike dates are 24th, 25th and 30th November 2022. 

New pages added to our website, 18 November 2022 - see menu on the right hand side or links here:

• Information for Students page
• Information for Associate Lecturers
• Frequently asked questions including an Out of office message
• Pickets, rallies and events page
• Hardship fund page has been updated and the guidelines and application form will be added w/c 21 November
• Action short of a strike (ASOS) 
• Templates you can use for emails to students, out-of-office messages, etc.
• New strike day leaflets will be added to our leaflets page - the national UCU resources are on the UCU website.

UCU Press release about the strike dates, 8 November 2022

UCU Rising Campaign - please visit the UCU website for more information.  

UCU Press release about the ballot result, October 2022.

Information on the previous industrial action campaign

Between the 21st and 27th March 2022 UCU members took strike action, including the weekend of the 26th and 27th for those whose working pattern includes the weekend.  Before that there were 12 days of industrial action in Feburary and March 2022 for both disputes. 

For further information please see:

• USS and the Four Fights disputes strike details on the UCU main website
• What Action Short of Strike (ASOS) is
• See the UCU website for national UCU resources (images and PDFs of flyers and posters) for both disputes 
• Find out how to donate or apply to the branch hardship fund
• Read our strike leaflets and newsletters from throughout this dispute.