Some staff at Lancaster University are undertaking strike action this week in an ongoing row over pay, pensions and working conditions.
The University and Colleges Union (UCU) announced ten days of strike action across three consecutive weeks in February and March.
Not all staff are members of the union and not all members may choose to strike, so the impact of the strike is likely to vary in different parts of the University.
Staff across the University are taking steps to make sure there is as little disruption for students as possible.
The UCU is in dispute with employers across the country over what they claim are unfair cuts to USS pensions, as well as little movement on pay, unsafe workloads, casualisation and equality failings.
They claim pay for university staff has fallen by around 20% between 2009 and 2019. Since then employers have made a series of below inflation offers, this despite university income from tuition fees growing by a third in the last five years alone.


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