Recent strike action by UCU members is a shot across the bows for university bosses. With students and other campus workers also mobilising, the potential exists for mass united action across education. Union leaders must seize this chance.
The latest round of strike action by lecturers begins tomorrow, with UCU members fighting over pensions, pay, and conditions. We call for the maximum mobilisation of workers and students – and for escalated struggle to defend education.
Following a recent ballot, UCU members in higher education are set to take strike action once again. A debate has opened up in the union about how to best achieve a victory. As part of this, UCU Marxists present here a strategy for winning.
Tensions are rising in higher education, as university bosses – under pressure from competition and marketisation – look to use recorded lectures to undermine the job security and conditions of staff. Workers and students must fight back.
Higher education workers are facing attacks on multiple fronts: on jobs, wages, conditions, and pensions. Marketisation and profit are destroying our universities. Workers and students must unite and fight for a socialist alternative.
University bosses have made a derisory 0% pay offer to academic staff in higher education. UCU members must reject this, and begin building for coordinated strike action across the sector. Workers and students: unite and fight!
Across the country, workers in education are beginning to mobilise against job cuts, attacks on conditions, and management attempts to force an unsafe return to workplaces. The trade unions need to launch a united fightback.
An attack on jobs is on the horizon in higher education. The UCU has launched a campaign in response. But members must pressure the leadership to ensure a militant fightback is carried out.
The UCU strikes have ended. Plans for continued industrial struggle have been cut across by the coronavirus crisis. The UCU must reach out to the rest of the labour movement to secure the safety of workers, with no loss of pay.
The recent UCU strike saw significant support from students. Students recognised that deteriorating working conditions directly affect them. In Leeds, the Marxist society mobilised for every day of the strike, fighting against the marketisation of higher education.
This week has seen higher education workers at around 60 institutions take strike action in a fight over pensions, pay, casualisation, and a raft of other demands. Marxist students across the country have been joining the picket lines in solidarity.
Today sees the beginning of a 10-day strike by academic staff over pensions and pay. The whole labour movement and student movement must support this struggle. Marxist students will be joining staff on the picket lines to offer their full solidarity.