Know Your Pension

Online pre-HESC meeting for activists, 18:30pm Thursday 2nd September 2021

This meeting will tackle key issues on the USS pension debate as we prepare for potential action over pensions.

This is an information briefing from the UCU Solidarity Movement aimed at Higher Education workers. It will consist of short presentations to help us understand what is happening to pensions and the various proposals from the employers. Topics include:

1. What is indexation and conditional indexation?
2. The UUK proposal
3. How is USS run and who are the different stakeholders?
4. Why are USS so difficult? What’s in it for them?
5. Joint Expert Panel 1 and 2, they said, USS did

The meeting will be followed by a debate on 7th September in the run up to the HESC (UCU Higher Education Sector Committee).