Submitted on Friday 16th March 2018
Rejected on Thursday 22nd March 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Fund the USS defined benefits pension scheme ending the UCU pensions dispute
Recently the University of Southampton's Vice-Chancellor Sir Christopher Snowden admitted he was being forced to implement the current pensions cuts, supporting maintenance grants and retaining the current USS pension scheme. However £9.1bn is needed and will not be met without government funding.
To have teaching staff with secure pensions we ask for a national policy change where the government bears full responsibility for all aspects of UK university funding, instating maintanance grants and ending the pensions dispute by gauranteeing the USS defined benefits scheme by means such as increasing corporation tax and nationalizing key industries, addressing the marketization of higher education we have seen since the 1998 Teaching and Higher Education Act.
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