This sector conference was called after at least 28 branches passed motions requisitioning a special meeting (20 branches’ motions were officially accepted). This is nearly …

Don’t give the JEP wriggle-room to impose cuts. Don’t let UCU leaders grab defeat from the jaws of victory

Today’s Special Higher Education Sector Conference represents a watershed moment for UCU in a dispute that has transformed our union. Nearly half of all USS branches passed calling motions for today’s conference in order to hold our leadership to account. Why did the USS dispute end the way it did? How do we prepare to restart it if the current settlement reached unravels?

London Region UCU has called a lobby of the NEC meeting on Friday from 10:15 to 11 at UCU HQ in Carlow Street, Mornington Crescent, …

On Saturday 9th June, around 80 UCU members, all but one or two of whom attended this year’s congress two weeks ago, came together in …

USS negotiator Marion Hersh provides an account of the dispute and negotiations

Times Up on Discrimination, Casualisation and Inequality in HE:
The USS Joint Expert Panel and HE Pay
Carlo Morelli and Sean Wallis
The consensus among everyone who took …

A model motion for branches
When passed, please email to a UCULEFT or sympathetic NEC member asking for it to be raised at the next NEC.

A democratic …

I have attended every UCU Congress since its formation and quite a few NATFHE ones too. But I have never seen anything quite like this …

Staff walkouts shutdown UCU congress. Both morning and afternoon sessions were brought to a halt by the walkout of UCU employees.
The issue at stake was …

150 delegates representing 54 colleges and universities attended the London Region hosted UCU Transformed activist day school. It was an inspiring day. Delegates discussed and …