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6.30pm Wednesday 28 September
Register: bit.ly/UCULHowStrikesCanWin
Speakers include:
John McDonnell MP
Chad Croom – CWU South Central Postal Branch,
John Delaney – Unite dockworker, Liverpool
Aliyah Stennett – UCU City College Birmingham
Mark Abel – UCU Left Secretary
Co-chairs: Maria …
Liz Truss’s election as leader of the Conservative Party becoming Prime Minister signals a significant ratcheting up of attacks on the working class. She has made it clear that there will be no real attempt to help the poorest in …
It makes no sense for the TUC to postpone congress and for some unions to suspend their strikes to show respect for the period of mourning for the Queen’s death. All credit to UCU’s GS, Jo Grady who argued against …
UCU members will need to get organised to win the ballots in Higher Education. After the UCU Rising campaign on Wednesday 10th August, it’s all hands on deck to deliver the hard-hitting, ‘transformative’ campaign promised by UCU HQ.
We are …
The decision by the US Supreme Court to overturn Roe versus Wade is a major attack on women’s rights and on abortion rights. It has many implications for the right to privacy and many other constitutional rights.
In the USA it …
Monday’s Branch Delegates Meeting (BDM) on the Four Fights and USS disputes takes place in a radically different context than even the debates had so recently at UCU Congress.
The strikes by railworkers and the performance of the RMT union’s …
Here we go again! Once again, the General Secretary is doing everything she can to undo the decisions taken at the recent HE Sector Conference on next steps in the Four Fights and USS disputes.
She has today sent out …
Friday’s UCU National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting was the first meeting of the newly-elected committee after Congress. The General Secretary gave her report, which she also recorded for broadcast.
The General Secretary was questioned on the line in …
Yesterday’s Congress debate around democracy in UCU and the conduct of the USS and Four Fights disputes in Higher Education showed a deep unease amongst delegates about the General Secretary’s leadership and her attempts to ignore democratic decisions made by …
Congress 2022 is meeting at a time when working people are facing a major cost of living crisis, as well as continued pollution of the environment and greater danger of nuclear war.…