Tuesday 20-03-2018 - 08:00

University of Bristol staff, along with lecturers and university professionals across the country, are currently involved in an industrial dispute over proposed changes to their pensions. Our lecturers have already taken fourteen days of strike action and there may be further strikes before the summer. This will disrupt our teaching and learning, but nonetheless students have voted overwhelmingly to support our lecturers, as well as our postgraduate students who teach.

We believe that fair working conditions for staff are the foundation for good learning conditions for students. We are also concerned that the proposed pension changes will disproportionately affect young lecturers and new career starters, including Bristol SU’s own members who are hoping to become academics or administrators.

Bristol SU will be working with the University of Bristol and UCU to ensure both our lecturers and our students are supported throughout the period of the industrial dispute.

You can find more information about the strikes, what Bristol SU is doing, and how you might be affected at www.bristolsu.org.uk/strike

 

How should the University of Bristol spend strikers’ withheld pay?

Bristol SU Officers have worked with UCU reps and University of Bristol senior management to agree that any pay withheld from striking staff is spent to benefit current students with a particular focus on supporting wellbeing.

We want to hear your views on exactly how it should be spent.

Fill in the consultation form by Thursday 22 March to express your views.