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- HEC report 9 October 2026This meeting was an all-day HEC meeting scheduled for the start of Term. Megan Povey The meeting started with a tribute to Megan who died recently and a one-minute silence. She was a long-term campaigner and activist both within and beyond UCU who will be much missed. Megan was active on USS, including being a negotiator, …
- BOYCOTT ISRAELI UNIVERSITIESSign the commitment! http://academiccommitment4palestine.org.uk
- France & Spain – Students and workers fight back.
Stop the repression – spread the resistance! In France and Spain, thousands of workers & students have taken to the streets against the underfunding of schools and the lack of affordable housing. In France, the movement was sparked by school students, with over 400 schools being shut down. The police have viciously attacked them and arrested …Continue reading “France & Spain – Students and workers fight back. “
- Organise now for the nationally aggregated ballot FEC Report Back – 25th September In May, branch delegates at FESC voted to launch a nationally aggregated ballot over pay, workload and national binding bargaining. This report focuses on how the campaign is progressing with the ballot being launched this term, and the key next steps we need to take now. Pay, workload and national binding …
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- No shortcuts without industrial action
Dundee and Edinburgh UCU branches strike for five weeks of co-ordinated strike action By Carlo Morelli, UCU Dundee rep Dundee UCU in their second of five weeks of strike action have now been joined by Edinburgh UCU, in their own five weeks of strikes. Both union branches are striking against threatened compulsory redundancies, as Scottish Higher Education … - UCU’s Equality Conference – here’s why you should goYou will have received an email invitation to UCU’s Equality Conference in Newcastle, Thursday 26th to Saturday 28th November. We strongly encourage members to attend in order to shape the discussions and learn from others. Women’s rights, disability rights, trans rights, migrant rights and minority ethnic people are all under attack within the our institutions, society and …
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- UCU NEC by-election – Summer 2026UCU’s NEC elections decide the lay leadership of our union. NEC decisions affect how we deal with employers; which member issues we prioritise allocation of union resources to; how, if and when members are provided legal support; and what fighting fund support members who participate in strikes and marking boycotts receive. It’s vital that members have …
- Vote reject the offer, yes to industrial action!This week you should have received your electronic ballot over pay (email sent on 21st July) More than ever, we need a coordinated fight to save the HE sector. Some members have asked why we should focus on the UK-wide pay ballot when branches are facing compulsory redundancies and job losses? The two issues are connected, the …
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- Report of Higher Education Committee – 26 June 2026The newly constituted Higher Education Committee met at the end of last month, based on the last round of NEC elections. We are all too keenly aware of the crisis facing HE with increasing numbers of universities facing threats of hundreds of compulsory redundancies and pension loss and slashing, cuts and closures, as well as the …
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- FEC defending member’s democratic decisionsThe Further Education Committee (FEC) met on Friday for its first meeting since the new committee was elected. Members could reasonably have expected the meeting to focus on implementing the decisions taken at the Further Education Sector Conference (FESC) in May. Instead, the committee was presented with proposals that abandoned those democratically agreed decisions and attempted …
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