Since February 22, 2018, members of the University and College Union (UCU) across the United Kingdom have been on strike to protest attempts to cut their defined-benefit pension scheme, USS. With pension changes on the horizon for UTFA members, UTFA has selected a series of news articles to put the issue in an international context.

March 13, 2018

• UCU: HEC decides no deal
   

March 12, 2018

• UCU: Agreement reached between UCU and UUK under the auspices of ACAS
   

March 7, 2018

• BBC: Oxford U-turn in university pension cut dispute
   

March 6, 2018

• The Independent: We should all be as angry as university staff about the state of our pensions. They’re a crisis in the making
   

February 25, 2018

• The Independent: If you look at the economics, it's completely reasonable for university lecturers to strike over pension changes
   

February 22, 2018

• New Statesman: What the university staff strike reveals about our broken higher education system
• BBC: University pension boss's £82,000 pay rise