UCU Left send our solidarity to Sussex UCU, and support their statement of 12th October 2021 in support of trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming members of our university communities. UCU Left also support the national UCU statement published on …
Meeting – COP26: How can unions respond to the climate emergency?
Join our next online participatory UCU Left meeting, co-hosted with Campaign Against Climate Change
Monday 18th October, 6.15pm
Register: https://bit.ly/UCUL-CACC
The COP26 summit will not bring about the radical change necessary to address the climate emergency. It is going to …
Victory at Liverpool
The UCU at the University of Liverpool has achieved a complete victory in its fight over jobs. At the start of the year the University announced that 47 jobs were being put at risk by its ‘Project Shape’ shake-up of …
Our employers think the pandemic is over: we must fight for safe campuses
Universities are returning and FE colleges have just returned to campuses amid a high and growing level of Covid-19 infections. Despite the limited extent to which full vaccination has occurred within the young adults we have in our classes, our …
UNITE THE FIGHTS! UCU Solidarity Movement Rally – 6pm Monday 20 September
Register in advance: https://bit.ly/UniteFights
- Uniting the Fights – Vicky Blake (UCU President)
- The Fight for Safe Campuses – Marian Mayer (Uni of Bournemouth UCU)
- Margot Hill (Croydon College UCU) on Striking Back in FE
- Winning at Liverpool – with Jo
Prepare for battle! United fights can win!
Delegates to last week’s Special HE Sector Conference have voted to launch both the battle to defend USS pensions and the Four Fights. These are very significant decisions by delegates representing members in pre- and post-92 institutions.
Motions to delay …
SHESC Voting Advice from Two USS Negotiators
Vote against motion 1 and amendment 3A1
Vote for motions 2 and amendment 2 A1, 3, 4, 5
Vote for remission of motion 6 (or against if not remitted)
Reasons to oppose B4: exploring conditional indexation
- A conditional indexation scheme
If we don’t fight, we lose
Which HESC motions should be supported, and which opposed?
The two current disputes in Higher Education are of the utmost importance to UCU and its members in the sector. Both are fuelled by the employers’ desire to drive down the …
Unity is strength – combine the fight over pensions and pay
Friday’s 1000-strong mass online meeting was an important moment in our union’s USS and Four Fights campaigns. At last, Jo Grady has realised that the technique pioneered by the NEU of using the technology to bring together large numbers of …
UCU Left Meeting – USS crisis: pensions under threat
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 …