Download the UCU left leaflet for strikes on Wednesday and Thursday.
UCU members at six English colleges will strike for fair pay on Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 November this week.
The action is …
Article in the Times Educational Supplement 1 November 2018
The University and College Union will be re-balloting its branches who failed to …
The successful consultative pay ballot of members demonstrated 82% rejection on a 48% turnout and 65% for extended strike action. HEC voted to initiate an industrial action ballot from August through September ending in early October. A pay …
The AoC have delivered an ultimatum to UCU: end the disputes over the 2017/18 pay claim or we will not enter negotiations over the 2018/19 claim.
This is a declaration of war.
UCU national officers are united in condemning this …
The vote of UCU members in the recent e-ballot paused our industrial action campaign to facilitate the formation of the Joint Expert Panel (JEP) into the USS valuation. But the JEP is already facing resistance from USS itself. Even before …
There has been much comment on the UCU Activists List and elsewhere on the question of democracy within UCU and the role of the four emails sent by the general secretary during the USS ballot.
As these emails were sent …
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 …
Dear colleague
The UCU e-ballot over the UUK offer that closed on Friday (13 April), the nature of the offer and the manner in which members were balloted, all expose a deep democratic deficit
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We reject this proposal because
1) it does not go nearly far enough to meet our demands and
2) we are in an excellent position to continue to pressure employers and to get what we want.
We strongly welcome the …
