UK. Striking university staff irate over pensions deal
Strikes at UK universities are to continue after staff overwhelmingly rejected a revised offer on their pensions. The University and College Union was forced to throw out the deal it had negotiated with university employers after members voted against it.
The union will now draw up detailed plans aimed at disrupting summer examinations in an escalation of the industrial action, which is now in its fourth week.
The deal, which had been reached on Monday night after six days of talks at the conciliation service Acas, was thrown out when the UCU’s higher education committee met on Tuesday after local branches had rejected it.
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