UK universities face sector-wide strike action after University and College Union members backed industrial action in two historic ballots.
The union comfortably passed the 50 per cent turnout threshold – needed under trade union laws introduced in 2016 – and more than eight in 10 of those polled supported walking out.
For the first time in recent years, UCU ran an aggregated ballot, meaning all universities could now face disruption as opposed to the patchier action delivered by branch-by-branch polls that saw just 39 universities affected last time around.
