Campaign stories
UCU’s regional pay briefings have now been completed, and responses were fairly consistent. In summary:
1. There is little support for accepting the current offer. Nor did reps say that the latest offer represented a significant improvement to warrant a …
Well done to everyone who worked hard to get the vote out for Elane Heffernan as representative of disabled members from the further education sector.
The election closed at noon on Monday 10 October 2016. Elane did not win this …
Dear colleague
I am writing to ask you to think very seriously about attending the Third Convention for Higher Education, which will take place at UCL on Saturday 15 October.
Please forward this email to your colleagues as appropriate.…
The Tory government is intensifying its attacks on international students, EU/EEA workers, immigrants and refugees. Over the last few days it has proposed both to cut international student numbers to meet immigration targets and to force companies to disclose how …
The Tory Government is pushing ahead with its attempt to privatise Higher Education using tuition fees as a mechanism.
The Higher Education and Research Bill 2016-17 (“HE Bill” for short) is a key piece in …
UCU Left is asking everyone to sign and circulate throughout their branches this petition against the shameful actions of CU Services Ltd, Coventry University’s subsidiary company.
From UCU website: “Vulnerable and precarious staff teaching Pre and In-Sessional English …
Lucia Pradella and Phoebe Moore attended the UCU Left conference on 24/09/16 to talk about the Free Movement of Labour campaign.
Brexit creates challenges both for the British ruling class and for the working class.
Most obviously, the existing free …
Click here for HE Pay Dispute leaflet
Employers are breaking ranks in our pay dispute. First Essex and now the LSE have committed to ending the gender pay gap. If …
Helen MacCarthy recently posted that there are cuts being pushed through at Hull College. This radio interview about Hull is very informative. However, we have just discovered that UCU President, Rob Goodfellow, is one of the staff members being …
Fight the victimisations! Fight the cuts!
UCU members at London Met are taking strike action on Thursday 29th Sept to demand the reinstatement of victimised union reps, David Hardman and Mark Campbell and to stop mass compulsory redundancies and attacks
