Tuesday’s #UCURising reps briefing has caused a huge amount of confusion ahead of our six days of strike action.
No new information about progress in the talks materialised.
All we learned was that there ‘may’ be some progress on USS, …
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Tuesday’s #UCURising reps briefing has caused a huge amount of confusion ahead of our six days of strike action.
No new information about progress in the talks materialised.
All we learned was that there ‘may’ be some progress on USS, …
UCU left candidate, Maria Chondrogianni won the VP election. It was a vote for taking our fight to the employers and against pausing that fight. This is the most important lay position in the union, with the Vice President becoming …
After the imposed ‘pause’ in our strike action, UCU members are back on the picket lines from Wednesday next week.
We start our action alongside hundreds of thousands of NEU teachers, PCS civil servants, BMA Junior doctors and ASLEF and …
UCU has just launched a consultative ballot in Further Education via email. Every member in every college will be asked, ‘Are you prepared to take strike action over pay, workload and a national binding negotiating framework?’
The Further Education Committee is recommending to …
Report from Friday’s Higher Education Committee
UCU’s Higher Education Committee (HEC) met on Friday.
UCU members in Higher Education are now being asked what they think of the General Secretary’s unilateral decision to call off strike action late on Friday, breaking union policy on the conduct of disputes.
A more cynical ploy is difficult …
In a shocking move, the General Secretary, Jo Grady, has announced that our strike action for the next two weeks has been ‘paused’ in the interests of pursuing negotiations and ‘creating a period of calm’.
This is an absolute outrage. …
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Meeting ID: 839 7634 2324 Passcode: 605496
Open organising meeting.
All welcome, please pass on to UCU further …
Last week’s decision to call 19 days of strike action during February and March (including on 1 February the TUC’s ‘right to strike’ day) came after a sharp argument across the UCU about the future of our disputes.
Once again …
During this coming week UCU will make crucial decisions about the next steps in the UCURising disputes.
At issue is whether our union takes the serious escalating action necessary to challenge and beat our employers, or settles for a strategy …