London South Bank University (UCU) Strike Calendar

An overwhelming 89% of UCU members on a turnout of 61% voted to strike and 97% also backed action short of strike, which could include a marking boycott. A boycott would see staff refuse all marking duties and block student graduations.

The vote is over LSBU's decision to terminate the contract of every single academic member of staff and pit them against each other in a redundancy selection process determined by the flawed Research Excellence Framework. The university intends to tear up local and national agreements and divide the workforce in two separate tracks, 'teaching and research' ('T&R') and 'teaching and scholarship' (T&S). The new contracts also increase working time without any corresponding increase in pay. In addition, the university will deny all new T&S starters access to the industry standard Teachers' Pension Scheme by employing them through a sham company and leave them outside the national pay framework.