UK: Industrial action halts some university classes

Teaching was called off at some universities during Britain's biggest industrial action for a generation, as support staff and academics mounted strikes over pension cuts, writes John Morgan for Times Higher Education.

On 30 November, as up to two million public sector workers went on strike over pensions, higher education's support staff unions - Unison, Unite and the GMB - joined lecturers in the University and College Union (UCU) and the Educational Institute of Scotland in stoppages at post-1992 universities. Staff in those institutions are members of public sector pension schemes. The UCU also mounted a strike in pre-1992 universities on the same day, part of its ongoing dispute over cuts to benefits in the private Universities Superannuation Scheme.
Full report on the Times Higher Education site