Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

University and College Union (UCU) is involved in a prolonged dispute about the pay, pensions and conditions of its 120,000 members. Planned: The University and College Union (UCU) has announced a total of 18 days of industrial action during    February and March. Strikes are planned for February  1, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 21,22, 23, 27, 28 and March 1, 2, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22.

Scotland It’ll be entirely dependent on the stock exchange, and various investments that go into our pension, so you could retire at the age of 66 and find that your pension is several tens of thousands less than you’d been anticipating. What you’ve got up to now is preserved; what you earn from now on will be subject essentially to the vagaries of the stock market, and that’s obviously going to hit younger academics, with more of their career ahead of them, more than it does older ones like me. University College Union strike An interview with Neil Davidson