For a democratic accountable campaigning union
The Casualised – at the heart of the Union.
Christina Paine
UCU is in transformation through grassroots organisation for the USS and FE strikes. We saw an unprecedented mobilisation of precariously employed workers on those snow-bound picket lines, leading teach-outs …
Hoe the USS negotiations and dispute developed
Marion Hersh
Is there a deficit?
Think of a pension scheme with an enormous black hole deficit. Of course, USS. But wait a moment, USS assets increased 12.2% from £60 to £67 billion …
– A change in public attitudes and women’s resistance to sexual harassment
Sue Abbott
The Guardian (9 February 2018) highlighted that more than 3.4 million women in England and Wales had …
Another Education is Possible Spring 2018 pdf version AEIP_Spring_2018 v2…
UCU in Transformation?
The past twelve months have seen a transformation of the union. Free membership for hourly paid PhD students who teach, mass mobilisations around the USS dispute in HE and similarly in the pay strikes in FE have …
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 …
Please find below a link to a downloadable version of the current edition of Another Education is Possible.
The Browne Report (2010) and subsequent White Paper, Higher Education: Students at the Heart of the System (2011), set in motion a fundamental change to the nature of higher education in England (with implications for the rest of the UK). …
The workshop on multiculturalism started off by looking at a set of questions. The questions and the main points of the discussions that followed are outlined below. All discussions led to the same initiative which was to hold a conference …
One of the outcomes of the anti-casualisation workshop at the recent UCU Left conference was the creation of a toolkit for branches and activists to ensure that the issues, and how to fight them were well known.