The Academic Gig Economy: Defending Casualised Workers in the Lockdown
The jobs massacre has started, fightback now!

Welcome: Mark Abel,UCU Left Secretary, Brighton University UCU
Chair: Bee Hughes …

End tuition fees and market competition

Covid-19 is a wake-up call for the whole of society.
Higher Education faces an existential financial crisis just as university researchers bend every effort to defeat Covid-19…

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Join the UCU Left to discuss the crisis, its impact on our jobs and how we should organise as trade unionists to fight for the …

We have been plunged into a crisis on a scale which exceeds the experience of any of us. At one level, it is a crisis …

UCU’s NEC met last Friday in the context of a global Coronavirus pandemic. It was followed by a short emergency HEC, called in response to …

On Thursday 12 March, Boris Johnson spoke to the UK press flanked by his scientific advisors. Live on air he told Britain “your loved ones …

The outbreak of the Coronavirus COVID-19, has created panic across the globe.  The Italian government has just placed 16 million people under quarantine. Schools, universities, …

After the first five of our 14 strike days, the employers are looking for ways to settle. There were talks last week in both …

The cartoon in the Morning Star depicting trans people as vicious predators would have been shocking if it had appeared in the Daily Mail. But …

Debate during the UCU elections has raised the question of why the UCU Left exists and why there are groupings and ‘factions’ in the union.

For …