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
Pensions Latest Posts
- November 23, 2022: Why are we striking?
- November 17, 2022: Our working conditions are your learning conditions – November 2022
- March 3, 2022: How are the USS pensions and Four Fights disputes interlinked?
- February 10, 2022: Our Working Conditions are Your Learning Conditions
- December 1, 2021: Reasons Staff are Striking: December 2021
- May 28, 2020: 20/05/20 NATIONAL DISPUTE COMMITTEE STATEMENT TO USS branches
- February 16, 2018: USS Pension Poster
- December 12, 2017: UCU EGM 13-12-17 3-4pm
- November 26, 2014: Petition to UUK over a fair USS
- November 12, 2014: THE article: University of Liverpool UCU vote to strike over pay threat
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
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