UK universities will be hit by 18 more days of strikes in February and March after union representatives backed “escalating action” as opposed to an “indefinite” walkout.
The University and College Union has pledged to ramp up its industrial action and plans to hold a marking and assessment boycott in April as it rejected a proposed pay offer from employers that would have awarded staff a rise of between 4 and 7 per cent by August.
The precise dates for the latest strikes are still to be confirmed but come after a dispute within the union over where to go next with the campaign.
A section on the left of the union backed calling an indefinite walkout after claiming sporadic strikes had not worked in recent years but others had concerns about how long the union could sustain such an action.
