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UCU’s strategy of defending USS pensions, pay and conditions in FE and HE has led to over 16,000 low paid new members joining the union. This is testament to the scale of casualisation in both sectors and to the expectation …
As part of a concerted attempt to persuade members to accept UCEA’s offer and end the Four Fights dispute, the General Secretary and those attempting to justify her position have launched an attack on the union’s industrial action strategy.
At …
7.30pm Monday 4 May
We will devote this weeks webinar to discussing strategy and how we mobilise to defend post 16 education.
In this organising meeting we will share experiences of what is happening on the ground where you are. …
In this article I explore various aspects of the changes in education and working practices which we are seeing in our colleges and universities as a result of the Coronavirus crisis. I address health and safety, contractual and pedagogic issues.…
TES article by Sean Vernell
The announcement to cancel GCSE and A-level exams this year and to grade students
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, gyms, museums and nightclubs have been closed across the whole country. In total across the …
Dear colleagues
We are writing as UCULeft ‘Four Fights’ negotiators who have been engaged in complex negotiations which are ongoing.
It is important to note that these negotiations have not yet resulted in an offer. Nothing is on the table …
The Joint Expert Panel: Could try harder?
The long awaited second Joint Expert Panel (JEP) report on USS was released on Friday 13th December.
The Joint Expert Panel was the outcome of the 2018 industrial action by UCU in …
Saturday’s Democracy Congress saw a mobilisation by the right-wing ‘Independent Broad Left’ (IBL) to block rule changes proposed by the UCU’s Democracy Commission intended to improve accountability of the union’s leadership.
The Democracy Commission – and this Congress – were …
…Labour has promised to end the historic funding inadequacies and place the sector at the centre of its radical proposals. What will be the future for FE: planning and collaboration or more competition and the market?
‘Merger mania, which has