University strikes 2019 – which UK unis are going on strike? – The Sun
UNIVERSITY lecturers and staff are set to start eight days of strike action from today amid disputes over pensions, pay and working conditions.
More than a million students could be affected by the walkout across 60 universities. But which universities are on strike? Here's all you need to know.
Which universities are going on strike?
The 43 universities below are taking industrial action over pensions, pay and conditions:
- Aston University
- Bangor University
- Cardiff University
- University of Durham
- Heriot-Watt University
- Loughborough University
- Newcastle University
- Open University
- University of Bath
- University of Dundee
- University of Leeds
- University of Manchester
- University of Sheffield
- University of Nottingham
- University of Stirling
- University College London
- University of Birmingham
- University of Bradford
- University of Bristol
- University of Cambridge
- University of Edinburgh
- University of Exeter
- University of Essex
- University of Glasgow
- University of Lancaster
- University of Leicester
- City University
- Goldsmiths College
- Queen Mary University of London
- Royal Holloway
- University of Reading
- University of Southampton
- University of St Andrews
- Courtauld Institute of Art
- University of Strathclyde
- University of Wales
- University of Warwick
- University of York
- University of Liverpool
- University of Sussex
- University of Ulster
- Queen's University Belfast.
The below are universities that are striking over pay and conditions only:
- Bishop Grosseteste University
- Bournemouth University
- Edge Hill University
- Glasgow Caledonian University
- Glasgow School of Art
- Liverpool Hope University
- Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts
- Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
- St Mary's University College, Belfast
- Roehampton University
- Sheffield Hallam University
- University of Brighton
- University of Kent
- University of Oxford.
And below are the universities walking out over pensions alone.
- Scottish Association of Marine Science
- University of Aberdeen
- University of East Anglia
- Institute for Development Studies.
Why are they striking?
The strikes begin today and will go on until December 4 after 79 percent of the University and College Union members voted in favour of industrial action.
As well striking, union members will refuse to cover for absent colleagues and are refusing to reschedule lectures that are affected by the absent staff.
Earlier this month, UCU general secretary Jo Grady said: "The first wave of strikes will hit universities later this month unless the employers start talking to us seriously about how they are going to deal with rising pension costs and declining pay and conditions.
"Any general election candidate would be over the moon with a result along the lines of what we achieved last week. Universities can be in no doubt about the strength of feeling on these issues and we will be consulting branches whose desire to strike was frustrated by anti-union laws about re-balloting."
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