UCU’s interim Congress took place in the context of a public health crisis where our employers and government are playing fast and loose with our health and using the pandemic to cut costs through sacking staff, including UCU members. But …
No return to unsafe workplaces – ballot to defend education workers, students and communities
Jo Grady’s statement in today’s papers threatening strike action against any premature return to campus and face-to-face teaching should be applauded.
UCU is saying clearly that we will not allow employers to put staff and students at risk as they …
UCU Higher Education Sector Conference 2020 Report
Members pay and pensions are under threat but is UCU’s leadership capable of resistance?
The Higher Education Conference, originally timetabled for May 2020, finally took place in an interim form, with a truncated set of motions and restricted opportunities for …
Students Before Profit held a socially distanced protest at the University of Glasgow on 16 October. Photograph: Laura Verdasco
Rallies and rent strikes: how students and staff are uniting against Covid chaos
Student and staff protests in The Guardian
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STOP THE JOB CUTS AT SOAS
This week SOAS confirmed plans for up to 150 expected redundancies across its staff. The impact of these cuts will be devastating. Members of SOAS UCU will begin a ballot for industrial action from Monday 17th August, while the SOAS …
Members vote to REJECT ‘Four Fights’ offer – Now #Fight4TheFuture
UCU members in Higher Education have voted overwhelmingly to reject the employers’ offer to settle the Four Fights dispute. 61.2% voted Reject, 38.8% to Accept on a 30% turnout.
This is an important result. UCU members have decided that the …
Vote Marian Mayer for VP & Peter Evans for LGBT+ rep
Elections for two important national UCU positions open this week. The first is for Vice President of the union, with the winner ultimately becoming President.
The UCU Left-supported candidate is Marian Mayer.
Marian has an excellent record as a rank …
Vote to Reject the ‘offer’: Four Fights are more important than ever
Vote to Reject the ‘offer’: Four Fights are more important than ever
Members are being asked to vote on the employers’ derisory ‘offer’ on pay and inequalities. It is important that we vote to reject their non-offer.
We live in …
UCU Left report on HEC Meeting on 8th June: Don’t bury the #FourFights
The Higher Education Committee (HEC) re-convened for a further on-line HEC meeting on the 8th June following the inability to deal with questions relating to the Four Fights and USS disputes at its last meeting of the 27th…
Report of Meeting of Higher Education Committee, 27 May 2020
Members of the UCU’s Higher Education Committee (HEC) met online for a half-day meeting to discuss the union’s position towards the two disputes, including the Four Fights offer.
HEC voted:
- To support the Day of Action on 1 June called