Strikes are set to take place at 60 universities across the UK as workers complain about pay and pensions.
The eight day walk outs will take place on Monday, November 25 until Wednesday, December 4, according to the University and College Union.
Members voted to take industrial action with 79 per cent backing the strike action in relation to changes to their pensions.
UCU general secretary Jo Grady said: "The first wave of strikes will hit universities later this month unless the employers start talking to us seriously about how they are going to deal with rising pension costs and declining pay and conditions.
"Universities can be in no doubt about the strength of feeling on these issues and we will be consulting branches whose desire to strike was frustrated by anti-union laws about reballoting."
Last week, UCU members backed strike action in two separate disputes, one on pensions and one on pay and working conditions.
In the ballot on pay, equality, casualisation and workloads, 74 per cent of members backed strike action.
As well as the eight strike days from November 25, union members will begin other forms of industrial action when they return to work.
This will include working strictly to contract, not covering for absent colleagues, and refusing to reschedule lectures lost to strike action.
