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The spectre of damaging strikes once again looms over some of the UK’s leading universities, after the row over academia’s biggest pension scheme reignited last month.
Staff went on strike at 64 universities in February and March 2018 over the dispute, which centres on the deficit in the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) pension fund and who—if anyone—should fill the hole.
On 22 August this year the University and College Union said it would ballot members at 69 institutions between 9 September and 30 October over a fresh strike.
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