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- Solidarity with trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming people, and Sussex UCUUCU Left send our solidarity to Sussex UCU, and support their statement of 12th October 2021 in support of trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming members of our university communities. UCU Left also support the national UCU statement published on Twitter on 12th October. Both of these statements reaffirm UCU’s existing policy of affirming and supporting our …
- Meeting – COP26: How can unions respond to the climate emergency?
Join our next online participatory UCU Left meeting, co-hosted with Campaign Against Climate Change Monday 18th October, 6.15pm Register: https://bit.ly/UCUL-CACC The COP26 summit will not bring about the radical change necessary to address the climate emergency. It is going to take mass mobilisation to challenge the powerful interests behind the fossil fuel economy and force governments to …Continue reading “Meeting – COP26: How can unions respond to the climate emergency?”
- Is the left on the rise in the unions?
Public Meeting & AGM10:30 Saturday 9 October Register here Speakers include: John McDonnell MP Jane Hardy (Author of Nothing to Lose but Our Chains) Speakers from the left in Unite and Unison Followed by UCU Left AGM - Victory at Liverpool
The UCU at the University of Liverpool has achieved a complete victory in its fight over jobs. At the start of the year the University announced that 47 jobs were being put at risk by its ‘Project Shape’ shake-up of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. The UCU branch refused to accept that there would … - The UCU fight over jobs at the University of LiverpoolThe experience and the lessons so far The employer’s attack and the UCU response The fight over jobs at the University of Liverpool began in January after managers had announced their ‘Project Shape’ initiative the previous year. This was to be a shakeup of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences and threatened compulsory redundancies for …
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- Our employers think the pandemic is over: we must fight for safe campuses
Universities are returning and FE colleges have just returned to campuses amid a high and growing level of Covid-19 infections. Despite the limited extent to which full vaccination has occurred within the young adults we have in our classes, our employers are intent on pushing through as much on-campus provision as possible with as little protection …Continue reading “Our employers think the pandemic is over: we must fight for safe campuses”
- UNITE THE FIGHTS! UCU Solidarity Movement Rally – 6pm Monday 20 September
Register in advance: https://bit.ly/UniteFights Uniting the Fights – Vicky Blake (UCU President) The Fight for Safe Campuses – Marian Mayer (Uni of Bournemouth UCU) Margot Hill (Croydon College UCU) on Striking Back in FE Winning at Liverpool – with Jo McNeill (Uni of Liverpool UCU) How to Get the Vote Out – with James Richards (Heriot-Watt Uni …Continue reading “UNITE THE FIGHTS! UCU Solidarity Movement Rally – 6pm Monday 20 September”
- Prepare for battle! United fights can win!
Delegates to last week’s Special HE Sector Conference have voted to launch both the battle to defend USS pensions and the Four Fights. These are very significant decisions by delegates representing members in pre- and post-92 institutions. Motions to delay the fightback over pensions and/or pay were roundly defeated, as was a motion calling for the two disputes …Continue reading “Prepare for battle! United fights can win!”
- SHESC Voting Advice from Two USS NegotiatorsVote against motion 1 and amendment 3A1 Vote for motions 2 and amendment 2 A1, 3, 4, 5 Vote for remission of motion 6 (or against if not remitted) Reasons to oppose B4: exploring conditional indexation A conditional indexation scheme gives conditional benefits. Is unlikely to resolve the problem of USS’s negative bias. Estimates of asset …
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- If we don’t fight, we loseWhich HESC motions should be supported, and which opposed? The two current disputes in Higher Education are of the utmost importance to UCU and its members in the sector. Both are fuelled by the employers’ desire to drive down the proportion of their spending which goes to staffing. Under the impact of marketisation and competition between …