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Voting in the Vice President & National Executive Committee elections starts on 1 February and closes on 1 March.
Jo McNeill is the UCU Left candidate for Vice President. Many universities …
Voting in the Vice President & National Executive Committee elections starts on 1 February and closes on 1 March.
Jo McNeill is the UCU Left candidate for Vice President. Many universities …
Following a serious debate about strategy, delegates at Wednesday’s HE Sector Conference voted to relaunch a hard-hitting national pay campaign, focusing …
HEC members were presented with a report from a national official that accepted that we had received the best ballot result in a pay dispute – in turnout or strike/ASOS vote – but then argued that national pay bargaining had …
After more than ten meetings and careful consideration of the state of the USS pension scheme’s finances, the USS Joint Expert Panel (JEP) has concluded that the way the scheme has been valued to-date could be much improved.
In diplomatic …
This sector conference was called after at least 28 branches passed motions requisitioning a special meeting (20 branches’ motions were officially accepted). This is nearly half the branches involved in the USS dispute.
The original aim of the conference call …
Times Up on Discrimination, Casualisation and Inequality in HE:
Carlo Morelli and Sean Wallis
The consensus among everyone who took part in it is that the USS dispute was a fight over …
Members know they have to fight to defend their pensions. But despite the weakness of the UUK offer, the hope that the Independent Expert Panel might sort out the valuation and reduce the ‘deficit’ swayed most members …
By Sean Wallis – vice president, UCL UCU and UCU NEC member
Dear colleagues
We are on the brink of what may turn out to be an historic victory in USS.
We have come a long way from 100% DC …
Dear colleague
It is Monday evening after Day 10 of our strike. UCU Left HEC members are quite rightly being bombarded with texts, emails and tweets calling for #NoCapitulation.
UCU has two tasks: to kill off 100% Defined Contribution (DC) …
UCU’s Higher Education Committee (HEC) met in the midst of the most significant battle the union has ever fought.
The employers have been dragged kicking and screaming to the negotiating table only as a result of our significant strike action. …