We’ve called on Universities Superannuation Scheme Investment Management to ethically invest our members' pensions in companies that are not destroying the planet and not destroying human life.
The forces that have arrived include the US #Navy aircraft carrier #USS Gerald R Ford - with its eight squadrons of attack and support aircraft - as well as a guided-missile cruiser and guided-missile destroyers. #Israel#Gaza#hamas
BREAKING: Agreement has been reached on the full restoration of USS pensions. 69 days of strike action in the making. This will now be put before the Higher Education Committee and if agreed a full member vote will take place.
I’m wondering how many people writing programs on #zos under #uss (Unix System Services) using C and #curses library? If you are looking for smell of real Unix development, try to compile here using make (not GNU) pure #vi and sh near to true Born shell (no, it is not #ksh). Anyway curses based menu to present selection list feeding data from stdin is usable from now.
The package of devastating pension cuts imposed on university staff last year are on track to be revoked, with benefits restored 'in full'.
In a new joint statement UUK and UCU confirmed that, pending a successful 2023 valuation and the green light from ordinary scheme members, the accrual rate and salary threshold at which defined benefits build up will both be returned to pre-cut levels.
As well as unjustifiably slashing member benefits, it seems the USS pension scheme has also let member data leak to hackers. This includes name, date of birth, and National Insurance number. How worried should that make me?
"Capita confirm that they have taken extensive steps to recover and secure the data as well as monitoring the dark web to confirm that data compromised as a result of this incident is not circulating more widely." – if they're monitoring THE DARK WEB then all is well, surely?
"Capita have identified from their investigations that personal data was “exfiltrated” (i.e., accessed and/or copied) by the hackers. The information accessed includes your title, initial(s), and name, your date of birth, your National Insurance number, your USS member number and your retirement date."
"To help you to monitor your personal information for certain signs of potential identity theft, you have been given free access to a 12-month membership to Identity Plus, a monitoring service provided by Experian – one of the UK’s leading Credit Reference agencies."