Country-wide strikes could hit colleges this autumn after University and College Union members voted to ballot for national action.
Union members will vote at the start of the next academic year on whether to go on strike over pay and workloads. It comes weeks after the Association of Colleges (AoC) doubled down on its refusal to make a pay proposal for next year.
The ballot will be launched in September and if successful, strikes could begin from October.
“Low pay, high workloads and a bargaining framework that does not deliver for staff have created a crisis in further education,” said UCU general secretary Jo Grady.
