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To: Northumbria University leadership
Northumbria Pay and Pension Petition: Stop the Steal!
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We call on Northumbria University to halt the pay freeze and stop the pension steal!
Staff at Northumbria University have taken steps towards a strike ballot over plans by the university to force staff from the Teachers' Pension Scheme to the Universities Superannuation Scheme.
If staff move to the new pension, they could be worse off by losing benefits and thousands of pounds of their own money for every year they are retired. If they refuse, they will suffer an indefinite pay freeze until the university decides that it has taken enough money from them to fund its ‘strategy’.
Staff at Northumbria University have taken steps towards a strike ballot over plans by the university to force staff from the Teachers' Pension Scheme to the Universities Superannuation Scheme.
If staff move to the new pension, they could be worse off by losing benefits and thousands of pounds of their own money for every year they are retired. If they refuse, they will suffer an indefinite pay freeze until the university decides that it has taken enough money from them to fund its ‘strategy’.
Why is this important?
If Northumbria does this, other universities will too.
These cuts will harm thousands of people, their students, families, and their local communities now and into the future.
These cuts will harm thousands of people, their students, families, and their local communities now and into the future.