{"id":72855,"date":"2025-03-31T17:03:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T16:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sheffieldwire.co.uk\/?p=72855"},"modified":"2025-03-31T21:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T20:04:59","slug":"exclusive-university-of-sheffield-to-be-hit-by-strike-action-after-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheffieldwire.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/exclusive-university-of-sheffield-to-be-hit-by-strike-action-after-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: University of Sheffield may be hit by strike action after Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Strikes are likely at the University of Sheffield after Easter, after ballot results showed that UCU members voted in favour of industrial action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources confirmed that 74% of members voted to withdraw their labour, with 82% voting to take action short of a strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The turnout for the ballot was 57%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dispute relates to planned cuts worth \u00a346 million by the university management, with staff redundancies of up to 600 projected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Restructuring plans, if given the go ahead, will particularly affect parts of the university such as the Department for East Asian Studies and may lead to a number of courses being merged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Ben Golding, a foundation year student, chose Sheffield because he wanted to study Physics with Philosophy. He was informed that the course would be cut after the UCAS deadline.\">Ben Golding<\/a>, a foundation year student, chose Sheffield because he wanted to study Physics with Philosophy. He was informed that the course would be cut after the UCAS deadline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It comes as strike action took place last week at Sheffield Hallam University in response to a delay in paying staff the nationally agreed wage increase from the previous academic year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strike action at the University of Sheffield\u2019s International College (USIC) was called off last Friday after management withdrew the last of the compulsory redundancy notices if had issued to staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Members of the University and College Union (UCU) had been involved in the long-running dispute<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A meeting will be held tonight at the University of Sheffield Student Union Building at 6pm after students there voted overwhelmingly in a referendum to support staff strike actions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dates for any strikes are yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strikes are likely at the University of Sheffield after Easter, after ballot results showed that UCU members voted in favour of industrial action. 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