Follow our live coverage as teaching staff begin industrial action over pension changes they say will leave them £10,000 a year worse off in retirementAre you a striking lecturer, or a student missing out on teaching? Email alexandra.topping@theguardian.com or contact me on Twitter @lexytoppingShare your stories and pictures via our form 1.51pm GMT Massive turnout @UniKent: Staff & students are joining in solidarity to demand fair pensions @UniKent #USSstrike @UCU #moral_outrage pic.twitter.com/H3q0BHEooWCracking turnout at UCU rally in Glasgow on day 1 of 14 days of UCU strike action for fair pensions for university staff. pic.twitter.com/FVuvRX44g0We’re standing with UCU comrades this morning. They’re on strike fighting the attack on their pensions. UNISON Cardiff staff supporting the UCU Open University picket line @ucu @UCUWales @OpenUniversity @UNISONinHE pic.twitter.com/j9A9ugmGOMQueen’s and Ulster University staff are out on strike over what they’re calling “massive cuts” to their pensions. Tens of thousands of acamedics have walked out across the UK.We have the latest on news @ 11 pic.twitter.com/BL5Cd1kK4pCambridge students occupy Senate House lawn in solidarity with striking academics!!! @ucu @cambridgeucu pic.twitter.com/n2NYZXI9Kz 1.36pm GMT Speaking at a rally of around 250 people in the basement of the Manchester University student’s union, Martyn Moss, north west regional officer at the UCU, told the crowd that strike action at the university was particularly important because it was the union’s biggest and fastest growing branch. Continue reading…
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