If you’ve been following media coverage of UCU over the past few years, you’d be forgiven for thinking that we are an “academics’ union” and our only disruptions are to teaching.  I remember in a previous institution, standing in solidarity with our academics at a rally as UCU members withdrew their labour over pay, whilst not realising my eligibility to join this very same union, a union that would go on to fight for the pension I was enrolled in at that time.   

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