NEARLY 600 university staff walked out on strike at Cambridge University today demanding a pay supplement to meet the exceptionally high cost of living in the city.Unite general secretary Sharon Graham joined the picket where library, museum, estates management, student services and IT workers demanded management introduce a “Cambridge weighting.”They cited other cities where universities has brought in similar supplements such as Oxford where workers received a pensionable weighting of £1,730 per year.

NEARLY 600 university staff walked out on strike at Cambridge University today demanding a pay supplement to meet the exceptionally high cost of living in the city.

Unite general secretary Sharon Graham joined the picket where library, museum, estates management, student services and IT workers demanded management introduce a “Cambridge weighting.”

They cited other cities where universities has brought in similar supplements such as Oxford where workers received a pensionable weighting of £1,730 per year.

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