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UNISON is urging its members working in universities to vote for strike action to defend their pension scheme from attack.
The ballot for strike action will start in April, and comes as employers wish to change the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) from a defined-benefit scheme to a defined-contribution one.
This means that workers’ pensions would no longer depend on their length of employment, but what sort of package they could individually buy upon retirement.
JACK DAVIDSON explains the motivation behind the UCU strike action at the University of Sheffield
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