The University and College Union (UCU) has apologised after mistakenly calling off strikes that were due to take place at Newcastle University.
With participation in the national walkouts fragmenting, the branch at Newcastle was one of 42 opting to go ahead last week but has been prevented from doing so as a result of the error.
In a statement, the union said it had sent a withdrawal of action notice to Newcastle on 21 September but then immediately contacted the university to ask staff to “ignore the honest error”.
This, according to UCU, was refused and Newcastle allegedly “threatened legal action if the union continued to pursue the action”.
