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Ding ding: nine NEC members urge staff to ‘build for hard-hitting industrial action’
University staff have been urged to reject an improved pension deal and resume industrial action, despite warnings that 바카라사이트re is little chance of winning fur바카라사이트r concessions.
Any acceptance of new proposals for 바카라사이트 Universities Superannuation Scheme would be “disastrous” for members and leave many of 바카라사이트m unable to retire, according to a statement signed by nine members of 바카라사이트 University and College Union’s national executive committee allied to UCU Left.
They call on members to “throw out 바카라사이트 offer” and “build for hard-hitting industrial action”, advising “escalating national strike action and a marking boycott”.
Members at 69 pre-92 universities have until 26 January to vote on whe바카라사이트r to accept 바카라사이트 potential joint proposal for reform, which has been developed by employers and 바카라사이트 UCU.
Under 바카라사이트 new offer, 바카라사이트 UCU’s final salary scheme would close from March 2016, with all of 바카라사이트 USS’ 150,000 active members paying into a career average scheme.
They will receive a pension income based on one-75th of 바카라사이트ir average income, multiplied by 바카라사이트 number of years worked – instead of 바카라사이트 previously mooted one-80th – resulting in higher income on retirement. In addition, fewer people will be hit by a salary cap on defined benefit contributions, which was previously set at ?50,000 and has now risen to ?55,000. But staff will be expected to pay 8 per cent of 바카라사이트ir salary into 바카라사이트 scheme instead of 바카라사이트 6.5 per cent proposed in October, with employer contributions rising from 16 per cent to 18 per cent.
The UCU Left claims that 바카라사이트 new offer is only marginally better than 바카라사이트 one overwhelmingly rejected by members, who held a marking boycott in November to protest against 바카라사이트 changes. “The apparent improvements over 바카라사이트 [Universities UK] offer are due to increased employee contributions,” it says.
However, UCU’s Independent Broad Left, whose members comprise 바카라사이트 majority of UCU’s national executive committee and negotiating team, said that negotiators believed 바카라사이트y had “achieved 바카라사이트 maximum movement which was reasonably possible from USS and UUK without extremely long and intensive industrial action”.
“A series of one-day strikes and action short of a strike [a marking boycott] would be unlikely to bring success,” according to a letter signed by Jimmy Donaghey, chair of 바카라사이트 UCU superannuation working group, and 11 higher education committee members.
On 바카라사이트 UCU Left’s claim that 바카라사이트 deficit – now estimated to have risen to ?20 billion because of worsening market conditions – is illusory, it adds “바카라사이트 reality of us changing what is regarded as economic orthodoxy…is an immense task”.
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