Jo Grady has today upped the stakes in her attempt to call off action and capitulate in our UCURising disputes.
While many of us were marching alongside striking teachers, civil servants and junior doctors, and while Jo Grady was herself …
Getting the HE disputes back on track
Delegates from dozens of branches gathered at a Branch Delegate Meeting yesterday to discuss where we are in the HE disputes. The meeting was called by London Region UCU in the absence of a BDM organised by UCU HQ.
It …
30th Jan: Building the Fightback and Getting the Leadership We Need
UCU Left open meeting
Speakers Include:
Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP. Member of Parliament for Streatham
Phil Clarke. Vice President, National Education Union
Member of the striking French teachers’ union
Member of PCS National Executive
Maria Chondrogianni. UCU NEC …
Pre-BDM Open Meeting 7pm 4th January
Fighting the HE disputes
What strategy do we need and how should we decide it?
The General Secretary has proposed an alternative to the strategy passed by the Higher Education Committee on November 3rd. Instead of a January marking and …
Leadership manoeuvrings threaten democracy as well as our disputes
In the wake of three days of national rail strikes, Higher Education delegates met on Monday to discuss next steps in the UCU’s Four Fights and USS disputes. The Branch Delegate Meeting was set up in such a way as …
Seize the Time, Don’t Abandon the Fight
We all know we are in the fight of our lives.
But the General Secretary’s ‘new plan of action for the four fights dispute’ is a radical-sounding document that abandons the Four Fights dispute until a year’s time, and pulls …
UCU Left report from Wednesday’s HEC meeting
HEC must listen to members –
Start the fight now on USS and Four Fights
- No decoupling of the disputes
- Escalating action now
The Higher Education Committee (HEC) met on Wednesday 18 January to take decisions about further action in …
Meeting – COP26: How can unions respond to the climate emergency?
Join our next online participatory UCU Left meeting, co-hosted with Campaign Against Climate Change
Monday 18th October, 6.15pm
Register: https://bit.ly/UCUL-CACC
The COP26 summit will not bring about the radical change necessary to address the climate emergency. It is going to …
Is the left on the rise in the unions?
Public Meeting & AGM
10:30 Saturday 9 October
Register here
Speakers include:
- John McDonnell MP
- Jane Hardy (Author of Nothing to Lose but Our Chains)
- Speakers from the left in Unite and Unison
Followed by UCU Left AGM
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UCU Left Meeting – USS crisis: pensions under threat
Monday 9th August 5:00pm
Speakers include UCU Left members on the UCU SWG: Marion Hersh, Deepa Driver and Sunil Banga
USS is in crisis and our pensions are under threat, but it’s the artificial valuation …