Staff at a college in Liverpool are set to strike on the day many students will be taking a crucial GCSE.
Upper management at the City of Liverpool College have been told to urgently raise staff pay if they want to avoid strike action on Wednesday, May 18, the day students across the country will be taking their GCSE in English Language. The University and Colleges Union (UCU), who organised the strike, are demanding that college bosses increase pay by at least 8.5% to match the cost of living crisis.
They also say that pay for staff in further education has fallen behind inflation by 35% and that college teachers make around £9,000 less on average than their counterparts working in schools. They also warn of more action following May 18, which will see striking staff working strictly to their contracts and not picking up uncontracted extra work.
