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- FE fights back 2: Vote YES to strike end the Pay Cuts and worsening conditions
A national consultative ballot involving all UCU FE members will take place from 19th April over pay and conditions. It is the first national ballot involving all English colleges in five years. UCU’s Further Education Committee is recommending members to vote YES to take strike action. Lecturers and support staff in the sector have seen their wages cut in …Continue reading “FE fights back 2: Vote YES to strike end the Pay Cuts and worsening conditions”
- UCU Left statement on NEC election results
The results of elections to the NEC were announced on Monday 8th March. They show impressive gains for UCU Left in the composition of the new NEC. Of the 30 seats filled at this election, UCU Left supporters won half of them. This is despite the groupings within UCU shifting to add a third campaigning group …Continue reading “UCU Left statement on NEC election results”
- We stopped the USS Contributions increase in 2018 – mass action can win again
USS Valuation Statement Do you want to increase what you pay to 13.6 – 18.6% for a pension that is already in surplus? If not, prepare for action USS has finally released its valuation proposals, giving a total cost of 42.1 – 56.2%. This means member contributions of 13.6 – 18.6%. Accompanying this are increasing employer …Continue reading “We stopped the USS Contributions increase in 2018 – mass action can win again”
- Further Education Committee (FEC) Report 26 FebruaryThe meeting began with a 1 minute silence for Donna Coleman, a longstanding UCU member at Burnley College. She died last month after contracting Covid. She was just 42 years old. This was a painful reminder of what is at stake. Condolences to her friends, family and colleagues. Read UCU’s report. 8 March The FEC met …
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- HEC Report 26 FebruaryToo slow, too timid and too obstructive HEC met on 26 February amid over a dozen universities making redundancies and victimising trade union activists. However, the resistance of members in branches means employers are not getting their own way. Branches are winning ballots and taking action. Striking members at UEL were supported by over 200 activists …
- The Fight for Trans Rights
Note on terminology: this article will use the term trans throughout as an umbrella term referring to a range of trans, nonbinary, genderqueer and gender non-conforming identities (as many trans-led organisations such as Gendered Intelligence do). We will use other terms alongside trans when we are discussing a specific identity within the trans* community. In 2020 … - How do we build a fighting union that can win?UCU’s interim Congress took place in the context of a public health crisis where our employers and government are playing fast and loose with our health and using the pandemic to cut costs through sacking staff, including UCU members. But these attacks have been greeted by our members with stiff resistance. At this moment of time …
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- Stop deaths in custody – Justice for refugees
Public Meeting – Cyfarfod Cyhoeddus Thursday 4 March – 5.00pm – 6.30pm – Dydd Iau 4 Mawrth In early January Mohamud Hassan was arrested by South Wales police in Cardiff, and died the following day after being released with no charges. The family of Mohamud are asking why did he die and why did he have …Continue reading “Stop deaths in custody – Justice for refugees”
- Interim Congress Voting AdviceUCU Left recommends that delegates to Congress vote as follows: Against motions 1, 24 and 30 remission of 9 and 16 In Favour all other motions and amendments all other motions even if unamended. For any non delegates who want to see the relevant motions, they are available on the UCU website here.
- HEC Report 5th February and Congress votingUCU leadership still dragging its heals on defending members The special HEC met on 5th February, to discuss the union’s response to the latest developments in the Covid crisis against a backdrop of the discussions that emerged at the NEC Briefing on Section 44 held on the 22nd January https://uculeft.org/report-on-nec-briefing-on-section-44-and-collective-action/. A number of motions and amendments …
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