Speakers to follow.
This is part of a series of webinars during the crisis hosted by UCU Left.
You can view past webinars here.

Fighting for Education in …

It is nearly 50 years since the Equal Pay Act 1970. Only a clearly defined career progression scheme will resolve the gender pay gap and other pay gaps. The pay gap has a lasting effect on current pay but also on past pay and future pension. Therefore clearly defined career progression should also be applied retrospectively as women, BAME, disabled and LGBT+ staff have been held back for far too long.

HE votes to re-ballot and campaign on pay, equality, casulisation and workload – prepare to organise and fight

Following a serious debate about strategy, delegates at Wednesday’s HE Sector Conference voted to relaunch a hard-hitting national pay campaign, focusing on pay, equality, casualisation and workload.

Marketisation is destroying education in our colleges, universities, prisons and the adult education sector. UCU is at a crossroads – how do we get the …

The Casualised – at the heart of the Union.
Christina Paine
UCU is in transformation through grassroots organisation for the USS and FE strikes. We saw an …

Gender Equality: Time’s Up and the #Me Too movement
– A change in public attitudes and women’s resistance to sexual harassment
Sue Abbott
The Guardian (9 February 2018) …

The UCU Women’s standing committee met on Friday 22 September. Sue Abbott from Newcastle University was re elected as Chair.
Gender Pay gap.
The committee had strong …

2017 is the 50th anniversary of the UK Abortion Act. This week parliament took an historic step forward in the move towards decriminalization but this …

On the UCU Day of Action against Workplace Racism last year, NEC member Mandy Brown interviewed Dave Muritu, Chair of the Black Members Standing Committee and …

Some demonstrations are more significant than others. Not simply because of their size but because of what they represent.
The response, yesterday, to Trump’s ‘America First’ …