Cleaners, administrators, librarians and security workers have voted to strike at 22 UK universities, adding to the potential disruption facing students in the new academic term.
Unison has confirmed the results of its strike ballot, with branches including those at King’s College London, SOAS University of London, Liverpool John Moores University and the universities of Brighton, Glasgow, Leeds and Bristol among those securing a mandate for industrial action.
The union said it would stage “a series of strikes later in the year” after rejecting a 3 per cent pay rise offer for most staff from the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (Ucea) in May.
