Colleagues will have seen the email from UCU General Secretary Jo Grady today, Tuesday 28 February, announcing UCEA’s “final offer” on the Four Fights dispute.
This “final offer”:
- offers no increase on the 1.8% pay imposed (a real-terms pay cut
USS pensions: prepare now for escalating strike action
We enter the new semester knowing, yet again, the resolve of UCU members to fight for the defence of higher education.
Our strikes before Xmas, involving 60 universities and 48,000 staff, were at similar levels – and often higher – …
Escalate to win the pay inequalities and pension fights
Strike to win – pickets and student supporters in Cambridge, 4 December 2019
The five issues we are fighting on are inextricably linked. We need to escalate to win on all of them.
We are in a …
The Second Joint Expert Panel Report: Could try harder?
The Joint Expert Panel: Could try harder?
The long awaited second Joint Expert Panel (JEP) report on USS was released on Friday 13th December.
The Joint Expert Panel was the outcome of the 2018 industrial action by UCU in …
‘Hotdesking’ in the lift: Edinburgh grad students organise against attacks on working conditions
Graduate students at Edinburgh have been organising a creative and highly democratic campaign to highlight the university’s attacks on their working conditions, after managers told research students in the School of Social and Political Science that they would be moved …
More days and more branches – the Second Wave is on!
The motions passed by the HE Special Conference on Friday have now been published. https://www.ucu.org.uk/hesc_Dec19
The mood of the conference was buoyant after eight days of successful strike action by 60 branches. Delegates were overwhelmingly in favour of planning a …
Democracy Congress – Two steps forward, one step back?
Saturday’s Democracy Congress saw a mobilisation by the right-wing ‘Independent Broad Left’ (IBL) to block rule changes proposed by the UCU’s Democracy Commission intended to improve accountability of the union’s leadership.
The Democracy Commission – and this Congress – were …
VOTE FOR A SECOND WAVE OF STRIKES NAME – THE DATES
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Can we resolve the Gender Pay Gap (and the race, disability and LGBT+ Pay Gaps)?
Can we resolve the Gender Pay Gap (and the race, disability and LGBT+ Pay Gaps)?
The UCU website notes that ‘although equal pay legislation has been in place for over 40 years, the gender pay gap in Britain remains …
Fighting two disputes together has united our sector
At UCU Congress in 2019 we proposed running the ballots for our two disputes together and combining our strike action for both disputes as a means to maximise the unity of our union. However, there is still disquiet in some …