A strike ballot will open on Monday 17 July at five colleges across the North East of England over low pay. The ballot will run until Friday 29 September. The colleges being balloted are:
- Bede Sixth Form College
- NETA Training Group
- Stockton Riverside College
- The Skills Academy
- Redcar and Cleveland College.
They are all part of employer group Education Training Collective (ETC) and are based in Stockton on Tees, Redcar and Cleveland.
The dispute is over the employer's 22/23 pay award. UCU members overwhelmingly rejected the original 3% offer. The college then offered to add an additional 1% from May and to remove the bottom point of the lecturer pay spine, which UCU members again voted to reject.
