The disappointing re-election of a Conservative government signals further onslaughts on services and working conditions. There must now be a call to arms to the whole of the trade union and labour movement to come together to fight the second …
Dundee University Strikes 28th April and 5th May – report from Carlo Morelli
On April 15th, Dundee University UCU, at a well-attended branch meeting, voted for strike action on Tuesday 28th April and Tuesday 5th May against threatened compulsory redundancies in the School of Medicine and the College of Arts & Social Sciences. …
UCU Left: Urgent: HESC on Pay Manchester, 29th April
Last Friday (March 20th), UCU circulated a call for a special HE Sector Conference on the 29th April to decide policy on our pay claim, see .
Apart from the fact that the call was buried towards the bottom of …
FE Special Sector Conference on Pay – Saturday 18th April 2015
IMMEDIATE CALL FOR BRANCH MEETINGS TO SEND DELEGATES AND MOTIONS BEFORE THE EASTER BREAK
FE Branch reps will have seen in the UCU FE News (branch officers briefing) that the FEC have agreed to launch a FESC Sector Conference on …
The Great Pension Robbery – UCU unravelling!
Only three years after closing the final salary pension scheme of USS for new members of staff in pre-1992 Higher Education (HE) institutions in the UK, the employers returned to the table with new demands. This time they asked for …
BARNSLEY COLLEGE STRIKE UPDATE
BARNSLEY COLLEGE 4-DAY STRIKE
Barnsley College UCU members will take 4 days of strike action (16th, 17th, 19th and 20th March) as part of a campaign of escalating action in their contract dispute.
They have taken 6 days of action …
UCU Special Higher Education Conference called for 24 February
Decision-making conference called for 24 February 2015.
Following requests from at least 20 HE branch quorate general meetings, a special meeting of the HE sector conference has been convened for Tuesday 24 February. See the calling notice, circular UCU/628, here.…
USS: An Unnecessary Defeat
The results of the USS Pension e-ballot are simultaneously no surprise and deeply shocking. In the end, on a 40% turnout, about a third of members voted No, but two thirds voted to accept.
Intellectually, most activists know that if …
A big THANK YOU for helping us defend our contracts and our students’ education
Dear Colleagues
After 42 days of strike action Lambeth College UCU have voted to go back to work after management finally made us an offer that was acceptable. We took strike action to stop a new, draconian contract being imposed …
Barnsley College Strike – latest
Barnsley College UCU members will be on strike for three consecutive days from Thursday 29th January to Monday 2nd February. They have already taken 3 days of strike action since October over the forcing through of a new contract in
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