UK Universities Face ‘Enormous Disruption’ as Staff Balloted for Strike Action

UK Universities Face ‘Enormous Disruption’ as Staff Balloted for Strike Action
Staff from Dundee University hold a rally in City Square in Dundee, Scotland, on the first day of a five-day strike on Sept. 29, 2021. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
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British university academics and staff members are being balloted for strike over pay, pensions, and working conditions, which union leaders say would cause “enormous disruption.”

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) will vote in the next few weeks on whether to go on strike, causing concerns that students’ learning would be impacted again just as face-to-face teaching resumed after the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which was caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.