Monday 9th August 5:00pm
Speakers include UCU Left members on the UCU SWG: Marion Hersh, Deepa Driver and Sunil Banga
USS is in crisis and our pensions are under threat, but it’s the artificial valuation …
Primed and ready: 15 FE colleges vote for action on pay and conditions
15 Further Education colleges have been balloting their members over pay and conditions – all have successfully smashed through the government thresholds and voted overwhelmingly to take strike action in the Autumn term.
The 15 colleges are:
- Capital City College
Meeting: After HEC, how can we fight on pay and pensions?
UCU’s Higher Education Committee voted last Friday to disregard the decisions of Conference 2021 and delay holding a Special HE Sector Conference (SHESC) until September 9th. See UCU Left’s report of the HEC meeting.
A Conference motion called for …
HEC snubs the membership and delays the fights
Report of Higher Education Committee of Friday 2nd July
Meeting for the first time since annual Congress and Sector Conferences, UCU’s Higher Education Committee decided on Friday to delay a Special HE Sector Conference (SHESC) until after the summer.
This …
Negotiating working arrangements in post 16 education after the pandemic: equality, workloads and surveillance
Abstract
The shape of the workplace after the pandemic will be a major negotiating issue for trade unions. In these negotiations the issues of equality, workloads and surveillance will be important. The traditional trade union agenda around homeworking was to support the …
NEC report
A largely uneventful meeting of the newly constituted NEC took place on 18th June. The key substantive issues were as follows.
Following delivery of her report (see the video), the General Secretary was questioned about the rationale for the …
No more consultation – now organise the fights.
HE branches have received a circular from UCU Head of Higher Education which says that following the Sector Conference, it is now necessary to consult members on the pay and USS campaigns.
Branches are instructed to call Emergency General Meetings …
Congress 2021 – Now let’s organise the fightback
After 15 months of HE and FE employers using the pandemic as a justification for attacking the jobs, pay and conditions of their staff, this year’s UCU Congress and Sector Conferences needed to orient and arm the union for a …
HESC 2021: Defending the principles of Higher Education and resisting attacks on working conditions
Our higher education institutions continue to be a battleground. Marketisation and competition push our employers to drive down the share of income spent on staffing and continually attack our pay, pensions and conditions.
At the same time, the Tories’ political …
FE sector conference 21: We need a UK-wide fight over pay and conditions
This year’s FE sector conference is set in the context of a government lining up to impose another decade of austerity. After ‘needlessly allowing tens of thousands of people to die’, the government and the employers now want to make …