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Last week saw UCU members in FE on strike over pay, workload and national binding bargaining (i.e. a pay rise that is paid to every branch). The strikes were well supported with large, vibrant pickets – many members were out …
Around 150 branches in Further Education colleges are preparing to ballot over a new settlement for FE. UCU FE members are demanding an inflation + 2% pay rise, an England-wide binding bargaining and workload agreement.
The consultative ballot results, where …
For the first time since 2019, UCU came together in-person, in its annual Congress: a three-day union policy conference with delegates from every branch. The meeting included two days of general union policy-making, ‘Congress’, and one day of sector conferences …
UCU’s annual Congress takes place at a crucial time for the union and with its leadership under increasing scrutiny.
As we gather in Glasgow, Higher Education branches will probably still be participating in a UK-wide marking and assessment boycott, with …
The results of the Special Further Education Sector conference, at long last, are out and the first round of negotiations with the Association of Colleges (AoC) took place last week around our claim.
What follows is a strategy on how …
Jo Grady has today upped the stakes in her attempt to call off action and capitulate in our UCURising disputes.
While many of us were marching alongside striking teachers, civil servants and junior doctors, and while Jo Grady was herself …
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 …
Link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83976342324?pwd=dUdRRTM3QUYrU2hTSmVaTE43NG5tZz09
Meeting ID: 839 7634 2324 Passcode: 605496
Open organising meeting.
All welcome, please pass on to UCU further …
Speakers Include:
Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP. Member of Parliament for Streatham
Phil Clarke. Vice President, National Education Union
Member of the striking French teachers’ union
Member of PCS National Executive
Maria Chondrogianni. UCU NEC …
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 …