Overview
- Staff at five Merseyside colleges will strike: Hugh Baird, City of Liverpool, St Helens, Knowsley, and Wirral Metropolitan.
- Lancaster and Morecambe College staff will join the action, with picket lines from 8am to 9.30am on each day.
- UCU members at Kirklees College will also walk out on the same three days.
- A national rally is scheduled at the Emmanuel Centre in Westminster at 12pm on Friday, Jan. 16.
- The dispute follows the AoC’s non-binding 4% pay recommendation, and the UCU cites a £9,000 average pay gap with schoolteachers as it pushes a 'New Deal for FE.'