UK: Lecturers threaten strike over pension changes

Lecturers at half of Britain's universities have threatened to stop marking students' work unless a battle over their pensions is resolved, writes Jessica Shepherd for the Guardian.

From this week, academics at 67 universities - including Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College London - will work only their contracted hours in protest at changes which they say will leave them with less in retirement. They have threatened to carry out rolling strikes and boycott the marking of students' work. More than a million students would be affected.

Employers want to change the lecturers' pension scheme, the Universities Superannuation Scheme, to put new members on career-average, rather than final-salary, pensions.
Full report on the Guardian site