Union clash looms as employers鈥 pension plans revealed
Employers propose scrapping final salary scheme to cut USS deficit

Employers propose scrapping final salary scheme to cut USS deficit

Union members have overwhelmingly backed plans for industrial action over changes to pensions

Ballot follows walkouts over pensions earlier this year

University staff would see 鈥渢ens of thousands of pounds a year wiped off their pensions鈥 if Universities UK plans for change are introduced.
Lecturers will raise concerns over ethical investment of pension funds at next week's annual institutions meeting of the Universities' Superannuation Scheme. Alan Carling, past president of the...

Academics see the OfS, like the changes in USS pensions, as another attack on them and the cherished compensations of their profession

The University and College Union mustn鈥檛聽let infighting tarnish its聽success in the聽USS dispute and a boom in membership, says Adam Ozanne聽
Fury as chair suggests employers could question UCU's involvement in the USS. John Morgan writes
While the result of the University and College Union pensions ballot was awaited, the Office for Students published on its website 鈥淕uidance for students affected by recent industrial action in...
There is no 鈥渇inancial shortfall鈥 in the Universities Superannuation Scheme (鈥淪trike looms as universities seek end to USS defined benefit deal鈥, News, 17 November). What we have is a ludicrous...
Experts predict 'unsustainable' USS fund will close within 10 years. Jack Grove reports

University and College Union general secretary Sally Hunt faces demands to stand down over her handling of the pensions strike
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...

The mercury has fallen, but an alarming number of issues threaten to ignite and, potentially, give the UK sector some painful burns