Staff at a UK university will go on strike in opposition to the introduction of a “two-tier workforce”, which has seen new academic staff employed on “worse terms and conditions”.
Members of the University and College Union at Falmouth University will hold three consecutive days of industrial action from 17 to 19 October as part of the long-running dispute.
Ninety per cent of UCU members who voted in a strike ballot backed taking action over the creative arts university’s creation of a new subsidiary company, Falmouth Staffing Ltd (FSL), in September 2021.
UCU said staff employed through the subsidiary do not have access to the Teacher's Pension Scheme (TPS), used by most post-92 universities, and are instead offered an “inferior” private pension.
