Pensions Dispute Winter 2017/18

UCU’s higher education committee has agreed to launch an industrial action ballot in the dispute over the future of USS. They have said serious and sustained industrial action is required in the face of damaging proposals from the employers which would effectively destroy the pension scheme

• UCU FAQ on Strike Action
• USS National Fighting Fund – support for members taking industrial action 
• USS Pension official site and reform plans 2018
• UCU Pension updates for USS proposals Winter 2018

Historical Pensions Materials

UCU national information

• Background to the USS revaluation
• UCU USS dispute information
• UCU valuation analysis, ballot information and briefings
• UCU national alternative proposal document (November 2014) (Web version)
• UCU national alternative proposal document (November 2014) (PDF version)

Universities UK/ UCEA/ USS Papers

• UUK Pensions upates, papers and information
• Employers Pensions Forum (EPF) Q&A on the USS re-valuation
• Universities UK (employers association) summary of employers proposals
• UUK – An overview of the potential joint proposal for reform of the USS
• EPF case for reform
• UUK updated briefing to employees on the proposals, 15 January 2015

Online Tools

• Pension Modeller (UCU)

Analysis and Critique of the proposals

• UCU Leeds University branch analysis (YouTube video)
• Letter by academics to USS Trustees re deficit 21 Nov 2014
• Ongoing versus Solvency Valuation (by Denis Leech an economics professor at Warwick University)
• UCU NEC left statement USS 160115
• THE article – UUK data ‘misleading’ over the impact of USS reform
• RUCU (Reading UCU branch) response to staff portal message about proposed changes to USS
• THE – False assumptions of the USS
• Susan Cooper, University of Oxford Analysis of the USS revaluation
• Susan Cooper, University of Oxford further USS analysis and resources