Technical and professional staff walk out at two Manchester institutions
Technical and professional staff at Manchester Metropolitan University and the Royal Northern College of Music have taken strike action over pay rises outpaced by inflation. Support staff strikes affect students differently from academic ones: laboratories, libraries, IT and student services stop rather than lectures, and universities rarely offer mitigation for that.
A university explains why it is changing pensions
Northumbria’s senior staff set out their case for moving ahead with pension reform — the change that prompted ten strike days there in February. Publishing the employer’s reasoning is unusual, and it is worth reading alongside the union’s case if your own university is heading the same way, because most are.