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Staff at 5 colleges across Liverpool and Merseyside to strike for better pay and working conditions
THE College Union (UCU) say College bosses have refused to make a fair offer over pay and working conditions, so its members at:- Hugh Baird College, City of Liverpool College, St Helen's College, Knowsley Community College and Wirral Metropolitan College will begin 3 days of strike action this week.
UCU members will be on strike on:-
Staff will be on picket lines at all 5 colleges on each day of action.
Striking staff from across England will rally at the Emmanuel Centre, in Westminster, from:- 12pm, on:- Friday, 16 January 2026. UCU, alongside its sister unions NEU, GMB, UNISON and Unite, is calling for a New Deal for FE, including:- pay parity with schoolteachers, national workload agreements and a binding national bargaining framework. The union is pressing employers to work with them to implement meaningful sectoral bargaining so further education can avoid the cycle of strike ballots and disruption over the past few years. Employer body, the Association of Colleges (AoC), recommended a pay uplift of 4%, but Colleges do not have to follow it, and many have failed to do so in previous pay rounds. The average College Teacher earns:- £9,000 less than their counterparts in Schools. UCU General Secretary Jo Grady said::- "Industrial action is a last resort for our members, but staff at colleges across Liverpool and Merseyside have been left with no choice. There is still time for management at these 5 colleges to make a fair offer that helps close the pay gap between:- School and College teachers. Our demands are reasonable, and management needs to look at those colleges that worked with us to settle their disputes. Employers must now agree to meaningful sectoral bargaining so further education can avoid the cycle of strike ballots and disruption that we have seen over the past few years." COMMENTS (0)
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