It Has Never Been More Important For Students To Support Striking Staff

If you’re a student in the UK, you’ve likely heard that UCU, the union that represents many staff on university campuses, are striking, but you might not be familiar with exactly why, or why you should get involved.UCU are striking over proposed changes to their pensions (proposed by Universities UK) which would scrap defined pensions benefits, tacking their final amount instead to the fortunes of the stock market- UCU estimates that this could leave the average lecturer’s pens