UCU announces 14 strike days at 74 UK universities in February and March

3 February 2020 | last updated: 4 February 2020

Seventy-four UK universities* will be hit with 14 days of strike action in February and March, UCU announced today. The action will start on Thursday 20 February and escalate each week, culminating with a week-long walkout from Monday 9 to Friday 13 March.

The disputes centre on the sustainability of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) and rising costs for members, and on universities' failure to make significant improvements on pay, equality, casualisation and workloads. The full strike dates are:

• Week one - Thursday 20 & Friday 21 February
• Week two - Monday 24, Tuesday 25 & Wednesday 26 February
• Week three - Monday 2, Tuesday 3, Wednesday 4 & Thursday 5 March
• Week four - Monday 9, Tuesday 10, Wednesday 11, Thursday 12 & Friday 13 MarchUniversities affected by strike action

Both disputes (47): 1. Aston University 2. Bangor University 3. Cardiff University 4. University of Durham 5. Heriot-Watt University 6. Loughborough University 7. Newcastle University 8. The Open University 9. The University of Bath 10. The University of Dundee 11. The University of Leeds 12. The University of Manchester 13. The University of Sheffield 14. University of Nottingham 15. The University of Stirling 16. University College London 17. The University of Birmingham 18. The University of Bradford 19. The University of Bristol 20. The University of Cambridge 21. The University of Edinburgh 22. The University of Exeter 23. The University of Essex 24. The University of Glasgow 25. The University of Lancaster 26. The University of Leicester 27. City University 28. Goldsmiths College 29. Queen Mary University of London 30. Royal Holloway, University of London 31. The University of Reading 32. The University of Southampton 33. The University of St Andrews 34. Courtauld Institute of Art 35. The University of Strathclyde 36. The University of Wales 37. The University of Warwick 38. The University of York 39. The University of Liverpool 40. The University of Sussex 41. The University of Aberdeen 42. The University of Ulster 43. Queen's University Belfast 44. Birkbeck College, University of London 45. SOAS, University of London 46. The University of Oxford 47. The University of East Anglia

Pay and conditions dispute only (22): 1. Bishop Grosseteste University 2. Bournemouth University 3. Edge Hill University 4. Glasgow Caledonian University 5. Glasgow School of Art 6. Liverpool Hope University 7. Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts 8. Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh 9. St Mary's University College, Belfast 10. Roehampton University 11. Sheffield Hallam University 12. The University of Brighton 13. The University of Kent 14. Bath Spa University 15. Royal College of Art 16. University of Huddersfield 17. University of Winchester 18. University of East London 19. Leeds Trinity University 20. UAL London College of Arts 21. De Montfort University 22. University of Greenwich

USS pensions dispute only (5): 1. Scottish Association of Marine Science 2. Institute for Development Studies 3. Keele University 4. King's College London 5. Imperial College London