An “unprecedented” wave of strikes will disrupt further education (FE) colleges across England later this month, when staff will take 10 days of action, spread over a four-week period, in protest over their latest pay offer.
The University and College Union (UCU), which represents FE staff, claimed it would be the largest ever strike action in English further education, affecting 26 colleges from Yeovil and Bath to Carlisle and Croydon, and it may not stop there.
Staff at an additional three colleges in the north-west took two days of strike action last week, and a further nine have mandates to strike, which could result in even more widespread action in the absence of an improved pay offer.
