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Following a serious debate about strategy, delegates at Wednesday’s HE Sector Conference voted to relaunch a hard-hitting national pay campaign, focusing …
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 unprecedented mobilisation of precariously employed workers on those snow-bound picket lines, leading teach-outs …
– A change in public attitudes and women’s resistance to sexual harassment
Sue Abbott
The Guardian (9 February 2018) highlighted that more than 3.4 million women in England and Wales had …
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 concerns about the slow progress of tackling gender pay gaps. It was agreed …
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 is also a time of escalating global threat to women’s reproductive health. We ask …
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 Branch Secretary of Sandwell College:
MB: How did the idea for a day of …
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’ inauguration speech, a slogan stolen from the American fascists of the 1930’s, was awe-inspiring.…
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 …
Two weeks to go to decide if Britain should remain in or leave the European Union (EU). Most UCU members in my workplace seem to favour remaining in the EU. Many cite the virulently racist nature of the leave campaign …