During ‘the pause’ the body representing universities in the UK (UCEA) announced the imposition of another real terms pay cut for university staff for next year. This includes an option for individual universities to defer implementing their pay award for 2023/24 by eleven months. Whether Aberystwyth University chooses to do this or not is uncertain.

 

Meanwhile negotiations on the other elements of the dispute are ongoing at ACAS.

 

UCU President Jo Grady outlines where things stand in the video below and why additional dates of industrial action have been considered. Beginning 15th March there will be six consecutive days of industrial action at universities across the UK. 

 

Today, our union has called a further day of strike action in universities on 15 March

This comes after employers decided to impose the first element of their pay offer

As talks continue, we must get ready to deliver big strike action and vote YES in the reballot#ucuRISING pic.twitter.com/PCZ8LO1XzG

— UCU (@ucu) February 28, 2023