The FEC met for the first time this academic year. The FEC considered how to advance the New Deal for FE as part of our England pay claim.
This follows the election of a Labour government in the General Election …
Britain, Ireland and Palestine in the Wake of the First World War
Professor Rashid Khalidi – Colombia University NY
6pm 7 March 2024
Register: https://bit.ly/BricupS6
British Committee for the Universities of Palestine
Seminar Series 2023-4
Palestine: Memory, Identity, Resistance
All seminars are on-line events, and take place at 18.00-19.30 London time. They …
UCU Left Pre Congress Meeting
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 …
No sellout. Keep up the action. Strike to win
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 …