UCL UCU Executive Committee were concerned to discover that UCL HR Director, Fiona Ryland, had circulated an email relating to proposed USS changes to an undisclosed subset of staff on 8th January, inviting them to a town hall meeting on Wednesday 24th January – which is the day after joint negotiations on the future of USS are set to end….

As your local Branch Officers met on Tuesday this week with UCL senior management to discuss UCL’s position on the proposed changes to the USS we learn that the UCL Provost has claimed that there will be “not a penny more” for the USS. The meeting heard from the Directors of Finance and HR and…

We wrote recently to members to warn of “a new and devastating attack on our USS pensions”. We promised further updates.  The shadow Education Secretary has recently expressed support for us: https://www.ucu.org.uk/rayner-uss-solidarity The National Union of Students too has now thrown its support behind UCU: https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/9104/National-Union-of-Students-calls-for-negotiations-in-USS-pensions-dispute Have you voted yet? If your ballot paper hasn’t yet arrived, please…

UCU’s higher education committee has agreed to launch an industrial action ballot in the dispute over the future of USS.They have said serious and sustained industrial action is required in the face of damaging proposals from the employers which would effectively destroy the pension scheme. Currently, USS pension benefits are guaranteed for all your salary…