Vote for action on HE Pay

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By Liz Lawrence, UCU Vice President

The importance of the consultative ballot on the pay offer

UCU members

NEC Report back – 28th June 2013

This was a half day meeting with HE and FE Committees in the afternoon.  

  1. The General Secretary’s report.

This had been drawn up by senior members of staff in Sally Hunt’s continuing absence due to illness.

There was an extended …

Congress 2013 Report Back

Delegates vote for national campaigns over education and pay.

UCU’s Annual Congress last week saw lively debates, a mood among delegates to build resistance to austerity and cuts, and a range of policies adopted which can ensure the union mobilises

Solidarity with New Russian HE trade union

UCU Left sends solidarity Greetings to University Solidarity Russia.

From their website;

An independent Russian university teachers’ union has been set up at a conference in Moscow on 29 April attended by delegates from 13 regions. The conference was

Report of NEC, 15th March.

The main discussion was around the finances of the union. Having a packed agenda and a long discussion on the finances meant that some agenda items such as proposed changes to branch and regional standing orders and rules were not …

University of Birmingham UCU Threaten strike action

The University and College Union (UCU) is balloting its almost 1,000 members at the University of Birmingham for strike action next month.

The branch committee is threatening industrial action in response to “the University management’s campaign of forced redundancies and …