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
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Our Marking and Assessment Boycott (MAB) is now well into its second week. Already, the employers are extremely worried about it. They know that if our action remains solid, universities will be unable to fulfil what they see as their …
We might agree with the sentiments of motion HE1 (‘Solidarity, struggle and reconciliation’), but the assumption that disagreement per se is damaging is wrong, and patronising to reps. Debate is the lifeblood of a democratic union. All industrial action requires …
Next week is set to determine the future of our disputes in Higher Education. It will also define the nature and direction of our union for the coming years.
On Monday, we will learn the results of our re-ballots in …
HEC report back meeting
We are still waiting for the results from yesterday’s BDM. But what is clear from the delegates who got to speak is that where branches had met to discuss the questions in light of a full …