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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.…
Liz Lawrence – UCU President 2014-16
Rule 13 is the rule which deals with complaints against members. Motion 15 to Congress, from Newcastle University, calls for the establishment of a review of the operation of Rule 13.
There has been a …
Motion 19 calls Congress to censure the General Secretary. This is not a personal attack on Jo Grady. It is about democracy and accountability. It is about insisting that the elected leader of our union has a duty to respect …
Cost of living crisis: We won’t pay for their wars, their austerity or their climate catastrophe
6.30pm Tuesday 31 May
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Yesterday a group of UCU branches began marking and assessment boycotts. These branches are now heroically carrying our USS and FourFights disputes until our union can regroup, reballot and take UK-wide action again. Most of them are threatened with 100% …