Nita chairing launch of Charter for Jobs in parliament.
The untimely death of Nita Sanghera is a shock to us all. The UCU and the labour …

We enter the new semester knowing, yet again, the resolve of UCU members to fight for the defence of higher education. We now have a further 38 institutions balloting to join the action over USS and the ‘Four Fights one Dispute’ pay inequalities campaigns. There must be no wavering in our resolve to fight for the whole sector

The Four Fights over pay inequalities and the fifth fight over USS pensions is growing. New branches are being balloted to join the campaigns. Now is not the time for hesitation or cold feet. Linking the issues and uniting members in escalating action is the way to win.

Elections for the UCU Vice President (VP), National Executive Committee (NEC) and trustees will take place beginning 31st January and closing on 4th March. As many members do not take …

The long awaited second Joint Expert Panel (JEP) report on USS was released on Friday 13th December. In this brief commentary many of the key positive and negative points of the Second JEP Report are examined.

Graduate students at Edinburgh have been organising a creative and highly democratic campaign to highlight the university’s attacks on their working conditions, after managers told …

Boris Johnson’s victory at the general election has sent a shiver of fear down the spine of all those who dared dream that this election …

The motions passed by the HE Special Conference on Friday have now been published. https://www.ucu.org.uk/hesc_Dec19
The mood of the conference was buoyant after eight days of …

Saturday’s Democracy Congress saw a mobilisation by the right-wing ‘Independent Broad Left’ (IBL) to block rule changes proposed by the UCU’s Democracy Commission intended to …