Northumbria University staff vote for strike action over pension plans

UCU says university’s plans to move staff to USS is ‘attack on long-term retirement security’

Martin Richmond
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Northumbria University staff vote for strike action over pension plans

Staff at Northumbria University have voted for strike action in a dispute over pay and pensions, the University and College Union (UCU) has said.

The UCU said the university's staff had voted to take industrial action over plans to pressure them to leave the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS). The decision follows a ballot in which 80% of UCU me...

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