Vote will add to disruption this winter after previous ballot for industrial action over pensions

Disruption at UK universities is set to widen this winter after staff backed strikes over pay and working conditions, joining colleagues who voted for strikes over pensions earlier this week.

A total of 58 institutions have now supported strike ballots, and they may be joined by others after the University and College Union (UCU) said it was looking at reballoting in branches that only narrowly failed to back industrial action – including Newcastle, where turnout was just a single ballot below the 50% required by law.

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