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 …

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 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 …

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.
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UCU 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.

After the HEC on 8th June branches and members need to campaign to keep the Four Fights alive. UCU must not cut the feet from under our casualised colleagues, nor ditch the campaign over equality or accept the inevitable increase in workloads now facing all staff.

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 …

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UCU’s NEC met last Friday in the context of a global Coronavirus pandemic. It was followed by a short emergency HEC, called in response to …

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We have had an incredible three weeks’ worth of strike action. Members have responded magnificently to the Four Fights and USS disputes. …