UCU Left meeting at Congress 2023
How do we get the fighting union we need?
7pm Saturday 27 May
Marriott Courtyard
16 Stobcross Rd, Glasgow G3 8GS
Register: bit.ly/UCUL-Congress2023
Read UCU Left’s Congress Notes
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Congress 2023
Winning The MAB – Bringing the Four Fights to a head
Our Marking and Assessment Boycott (MAB) is now well into its second week. Already, the employers are extremely worried about it. They know that if our action remains solid, universities will be unable to fulfil what they see as their …
After the historic vote – where next for the FE campaign over pay, workload and binding national bargaining in England
The results of the Special Further Education Sector conference, at long last, are out and the first round of negotiations with the Association of Colleges (AoC) took place last week around our claim.
What follows is a strategy on how …
How our MAB can win
The fight is on. We can win.
Within our union across the sector, members, activists and reps fought to ensure the MAB was called. We now have to ensure we fight on to a meaningful victory.
Members know that we …
UCU Left voting advice for the 19 April Special Higher Education Sector Conference
We might agree with the sentiments of motion HE1 (‘Solidarity, struggle and reconciliation’), but the assumption that disagreement per se is damaging is wrong, and patronising to reps. Debate is the lifeblood of a democratic union. All industrial action requires …
Vote No – Start the MAB
Next week is set to determine the future of our disputes in Higher Education. It will also define the nature and direction of our union for the coming years.
On Monday, we will learn the results of our re-ballots in …
The future of our disputes
HEC report back meeting
We are still waiting for the results from yesterday’s BDM. But what is clear from the delegates who got to speak is that where branches had met to discuss the questions in light of a full …
This is no time to end our disputes
Letter
| This is a letter to UCU branches from a group of members of HEC ahead of Wednesday’s branch delegate meeting. Re.: Message to UCU members in HE from some elected members of the HEC We are writing to you |
Reject the Rubbish Non-Offer – No More Surveys!
Focus on GTVO – Drive up the Votes!
At yesterday’s branch reps briefing, UCU confirmed there was ‘no offer’ to vote on. But, in a moment of sheer surrealism, the General Secretary declared that she wants to make members vote …
We stopped the sell-out. Fight on to victory!
UCU Left members of the union’s Higher Education Committee (HEC) today voted alongside others to ensure that our #UCURising disputes continue.
We are proud to have done so despite the denunciations now coming from the General Secretary and her supporters. …