USS strike: universities are ignoring goodwill of staff
Threats to dock pay from university staff working only their hours during the USS pensions dispute ignore academics’ unpaid hours, says Will Pooley
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Does the USS’ deficit recovery plan unfairly penalise younger academics?
Discussions about?how the UK’s largest pension scheme covers its deficit?ought to?consider whether all employers and members should pay the same rate, argues Paul Hamilton
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Universities must pay more to protect pensions
The University of Essex’s vice-chancellor explains why he disagrees with Universities UK’s position on USS pension reform
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The USS strikes revealed the management hierarchy in higher education
The autonomy, professional discretion and judgement once central to?academic life?is now looked on with deep scepticism by university managers, argues Peter Fleming
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Accounting tricks and pension deficits
We have been told that the Universities Superannuation Scheme's deficit has grown so large in the past year as to threaten its survival ("Deficit puts pension scheme in jeopardy", News, 13 September...
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UCU members to be balloted on latest pensions offer
Union serves notice of strike action at 13 universities to begin on 16 April
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Pension tensions (1 of 3)
In "Candid Cantor" (Letters, 31 March), Daniel Vulliamy misreads Brian Cantor's letter of 17 March on the Universities Superannuation Scheme and quotes him out of context. As Cantor points out, the...
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Battle for control of pensions looms
Fury as chair suggests employers could question UCU's involvement in the USS. John Morgan writes
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Ten-day strike at UK universities next month on pay and pensions
More than 1 million students on 68?campuses to be affected, as union splits walkouts by dispute
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USS warns of ‘sharp’ increase in costs as virus inflates deficit
UK?higher education’s biggest pension fund says Covid-related uncertainty on financial markets added ?7 billion to shortfall in space of two months
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Covid-19 has ravaged the USS’ ability to meet its promises
If universities don’t commit to underwriting a riskier investment strategy, pension contributions will have to rise sharply, says Bill Galvin
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UCU’s Sally Hunt censured over handling of pensions strike
No-confidence motion that triggered walkouts at the University and College Union’s June congress is shelved at recall event
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Union offers to swap time-limited cost hike for new USS valuation
As more strikes loom, UCU believes fresh assessment of pension fund would show employers’ justification for cuts has ‘evaporated’