Our Union, our Disputes, our Sector in Danger
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Solidarity is the way to rebuild
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Build the reballot
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We need to debate the action we need to win
Our Higher Education strikes this week are essential for the future of our …
Keep up the strikes!
The MAB is ending, but the fight goes on
The results of the e-ballot over the continuation of the Marking and Assessment Boycott (MAB) will be a surprise to many. Although overall 60% of members voted to end the MAB early (on a 27% turnout), HEC members were told …
HEC report 14 August 23 – Two steps forward, one step back
HEC agrees to call strike action before the end of the ballot period and launch reballot as soon as possible.
But HEC was also told that this reballot would take five weeks to prepare, which was a shock to those …
No retreat into a service union
A paradox in UCU’s leadership under General Secretary Jo Grady exists. Her leadership has been defined by the adoption of an ‘organising’ model championed by the writer and activist Jane McAlevey. Yet faced with intransigent employers the actual model being …
UCU: A Union without a leadership
The Marking and Assessment boycott has been on since 20th April, and has proved the power of members to halt the universities’ ability to award degrees. Members have shown a magnificent willingness to take and sustain the action in the …
What is going on in the HE national negotiations?
Summary
- These talks concern ending the Marking and Assessment Boycott
- Pay, casualisation, workload and pay gaps are not on this table: at best, these talks may lead to restarting negotiations
- Employers are not making an improved pay offer, but have
Don’t suspend the MAB, keep up the pressure – where’s our ballot?
Report on HEC meeting – 30 June 2023
By a single vote, UCU’s Higher Education Committee (HEC) on Friday voted to approach the employers to negotiate a possible ‘interim agreement’ to suspend the Marking and Assessment Boycott (MAB) ‘as soon …
‘Unofficial’ Branch Delegate Meeting 2pm 29 June
London Region and Newcastle and LJMU UCU branches are inviting delegates and observers from HE branches across the UK to attend an ‘unofficial’ Branch Delegates Meeting (BDM) on the JNCHES pay and conditions (Four Fights) dispute.
This meeting will be …
In-person Congress returns: democracy, debate and catharsis
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 Left Pre Congress Meeting
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 …