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Jeremy Corbyn to attend Liverpool demo to say refugees are welcome in Merseyside

Event on Saturday to be run alongside petition signed by hundreds

Liverpool Echo

UCU strike days: What dates are university strikes planned in February and March 2023

Over 2.5 million students will be affected by the UCU strikes, as university staff join nurses, ambulance workers and train workers in disputes over pay, terms and conditions

The Independent UK

University staff and civil servants stage fresh strikes over pay and conditions

Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show 843,000 working days were lost to labour disputes in December 2022.

The Independent UK

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University staff and civil servants go on strike

The University and College Union will reballot members to allow staff to take further industrial action through the rest of the academic year

Evening Standard

Thousands of university staff and civil servants to begin three day strike

The University and College Union will reballot members to allow staff to take further industrial action through the rest of the academic year

The Independent UK

University staff and civil servants to strike

The University and College Union will reballot members to allow staff to take further industrial action through the rest of the academic year.

The Independent UK

Work-life balance as important as pay, says university staff union

Six days into strike action, Jo Grady, UCU general secretary, demands end to ‘draining’ campus conditions

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Students stand with university staff ‘forced’ into strike action

A University and College Union Scotland rally took place on Friday on Buchanan Street steps in Glasgow.

The Independent UK

Why University of Manchester students are protesting and barricading buildings with furniture

Students have barricaded themselves into buildings until their demands have been met by university bosses

Manchester Evening News

University strikes dates: When UCU strikes are planned in February and March 2023

Over 2.5 million students will be affected by the UCU strikes, as university staff join nurses, ambulance workers and train workers in disputes over pay, terms and conditions

The Independent UK

University staff continue 48-hour strike despite move for fresh talks

UCU and four other higher education unions – EIS, GMB, Unison and Unite – will meet employer representatives for talks next week

Evening Standard

Welsh students hit by Covid and now 18 days of lecturer strikes fear for final grades

Members of the University College Union at all eight universities in Wales are joining colleagues at 150 universities across the UK in striking again today - Thursday, February 9 - in a row over pay, conditions and pensions

Wales Online

University staff and NHS physiotherapists to go on strike

Industrial unrest continues to sweep the country in bitter disputes over pay, staffing and conditions

Wales Online

Glasgow strikes happening this February - full list and everything you need to know

People are taking to the streets in their thousands not just across Scotland but the UK as a whole, with many people such as NHS staff and teachers fighting for the likes of a better pay as the cost of living soars and their workload increases.

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Evening Standard

‘We feel for lecturers — but we want our fees back’: what students really think about the university strikes

Lecturers, librarians and administrative staff are among the 70,000 university workers set to strike for 17 days this term — so is Generation Covid right in asking for compensation? Katie Strick reports

The National (Scotland)

Ellie Gomersall: Solidarity between workers and students gives hope for fairer future

Students from across Scotland took to rally outside the Scottish Parliament in demand of urgent action from the Scottish Government on strikes.

The National (Scotland)

'Enough is enough': Walkout Wednesday is ‘only the beginning’

THE coordinated strike action taken by members of various trade unions across the nations of Britain on Wednesday, February 1 was the biggest…

Wales Online

1,000 University jobs at risk in Wales as more strikes planned

Universities Wales said 1,000 jobs could be cut as a result of lost EU funding

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Liverpool Echo

All strike dates you need to know about in February

Hundreds of thousands of workers from the UK's biggest industries will strike this month

Evening Standard

The Leader podcast: London gripped by decade’s biggest strikes

Plus, the devastating impact on Gen Covid’s education

Evening Standard

‘Exploitation is the dirty secret of higher education’: London’s university staff on why they’re striking

More than 70,000 lecturers, librarians, cleaners and other university administrators are set to walk out for 18 days between now and April. Katie Strick hears three of their stories

The Guardian - UK

Strikers unite across England: ‘Our disputes may be separate but we have one aim’

Voices from picket lines and protests in Bristol, Birmingham and London on a day of mass industrial action

Daily Record

Paisley lecturers begin 18-day strike action over pay and working conditions

On various dates over the course of the next two months, lecturers will refuse to work in an ongoing struggle for improved pay and working conditions.

Wales Online

'Universities should refund students because of the lecturer strike'

More than 70,00 staff at 150 universities, including all in Wales, will walk out on February first

The Independent UK

University lecturer says strikes ‘for the students’ in face of ‘breaking system’

Anita Naoko Pilgrim, 59, said she tells her daughter ‘don’t become an academic’.

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