This year’s congress saw the exciting outcome of the the USS and FE strikes which transformed the union and led to the election of a left, grassroots general secretary – Jo Grady. (Click here for full analysis.)
UCULeft GS candidate …
Jo McNeill for UCU General Secretary
Support Jo McNeill’s nomination for UCU General Secretary:
Collect signatures to support Jo’s nomination in standing for general secretary.
The signature sheets can be downloaded at UCU website here: https://www.ucu.org.uk/media/10168/General-secretary-election-2019-nomination-form/pdf/Gensecnominationform.pdf
The completed signature sheets need to be sent to Jo
… Resignation of Sally Hunt – UCULeft statement
UCU Left are saddened to hear that our General Secretary, Sally Hunt, has decided to resign on grounds of ill health. We were all sorry to learn, at the end of last year, that Sally had been diagnosed as having …
The Fightback on Pay and Equality has started
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Report from Precarious Workers Conference – 18 August 2018
Report of the joint union (RMT, UNITE, UCU, UVW, IWGB) conference on precarious workers. It was a day of hard training and solidarity and demonstrates how important the fight for precarious workers is in fighting for good working conditions for …
UCU NEC ELECTIONS: Vote Naina Kent for Equality Black Members Seat
Election runs from 3rd – 28th September
Equality Campaigns
The magnificent industrial action this year by members in universities and colleges shows that a serious fightback can deliver. I was a signatory of the #OurUCU statement at this year’s UCU …
Register Now – Joint National Conference for UCU members – 13th October 2018
Marketisation is destroying education in our colleges, universities, prisons and the adult education sector. UCU is at a crossroads – how do we get the type of union we need to push back the Tories and the employers in the
… UCULeft Report from NEC 22.6.18
NEC1187A Motions and amendments from members
It’s official: Members and branches run this union
UCU NEC has accepted that the Recall Congress of UCU will now go ahead and debate motions 10 and 11.
A late …
FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO DISSENT
Staff walkouts shutdown UCU congress. Both morning and afternoon sessions were brought to a halt by the walkout of UCU employees.
The issue at stake was the right of UCU Congress delegates to represent members’ criticisms of the conduct …
NEC REPORT 16 MARCH 2018
Summary of report:
General Secretary’s report
Subscription rates
Prioritisation of motions for Congress
Changes to standing orders for how Congress/sector conferences were run.
General Secretary’s report
The NEC met for the first time since the momentous …