A report from the half day FEC meeting.

UCU members at Chesterfield College took their third day of strike action today (Thursday June 20th) in the fight against compulsory redundancies at the college

80 UCU members and supporters picketed the Huddersfield College main site of Kirklees College on Thursday 20th June, photos and report back from the picket lines.

Chesterfield College UCU steps up campaign of industrial action against threatened compulsory redundancies at the college.

UCU Left report back on the debates and decisions of congress.

A further contribution to the debate on financial strategy – a response to the National Officers’ document.

AoC takes pay offer off the table as all unions move to reject it.

UCU Left sends solidarity Greetings to University Solidarity Russia.
From their website;
An independent Russian university teachers’ union has been set up at a conference in Moscow …

70 Jobs under threat.
Lecturers prepare to take action to defend education provision.
Lecturers at Chesterfield College, members of the University & College Union (UCU) are preparing …

The UCU is facing a crisis. Some say that this crisis is a financial crisis. In fact, it is a financial crisis that is being transformed into a political crisis as some in the leadership of the union seek to use the fall in membership as an opportunity to turn the union away from campaigning for members’ terms and conditions, and in defence of public education, towards a servicing model of trade unionism.