UCU Left members elected to the NEC stand in full solidarity with Unite UCU members representing those who work for the union, with the elected Black Members Standing Committee (BMSC), and with Black UCU members, in the labour to make …
UCU Left statement
Defend Coventry Adult & Community learning and nursery provision
Coventry City Council is planning to make drastic cuts across eight council services. The Coventry Adult Education Service (CAES) faces a deficit of almost £200,000, blamed on inflation and rising costs.
In CAES, the entire team of 23 highly-skilled dedicated …
Pay, Workload and a National Binding Agreement: Levelling up the sector
Report from the Special Further Education committee (SFEC) held on Friday 2nd of February 2024
The SFEC met to consider how to implement an aggregated ballot. This follows conference decisions to take our campaign forward if the employers have not …
UCU Elections 2024
Why you should vote for UCU Left candidates
UCU Left is a large group of leading rank-and-file activists, officers and reps who are committed to making UCU both more effective and more democratic.
The sectors we work in are under …
Further Education Manifesto 2024
In this manifesto we want to address the immediate and long-term challenges we face in the further education sector and how we will approach them.
If elected, our General Secretary candidate will:
- Make securing binding national sectoral bargaining in every
UCU Elections: time to transform UCU
Post-16 education is in crisis. Successive Conservative governments have slashed funding and ramped up a process of marketisation and privatisation across the sectors. That’s why UCU …
Collective decision-making is the very basis of collective action and collective bargaining
Why Palestine is a trade union issue – stand with Gaza
Another demo and another half a million people take to the streets in London. Across the globe on Saturday millions marched for Palestine – 120 cities across 45 countries. Compared even to the great anti-war movement of 2003 this movement …
A dereliction of duty – HEC fails to give a lead
15 December 2023
This Friday’s Higher Education Committee (HEC) meeting was called to discuss next steps in the current 2023/24 Four Fights dispute. It follows Wednesday’s Branch Delegate Meeting, which showed a very wide consensus among the 110 UCU reps …
Assessing an epic battle: the UCU strike at Brighton University
The long-running strike by UCU members at University of Brighton ended on 10th November. What we believe to be the longest ever strike in UK HE history, certainly the longest by UCU, lasted 129 days. In fact, as the walk-out …