Summary of report:
General Secretary’s report
Subscription rates
Prioritisation of motions for Congress
Changes to standing orders for how Congress/sector conferences were run.
General Secretary’s report
The NEC met for the first time since the momentous …
UCU’s Higher Education Committee (HEC) met in the midst of the most significant battle the union has ever fought.
The employers have been dragged kicking and screaming to the negotiating table only as a result of our significant strike action. …
University of Manchester UCU held a thoroughly successful strike over compulsory redundancies on the 23rd and 24th of October. The strike saw the biggest picket lines at UoM in recent history, and great support from the students’ union – including …
UCU Higher Education Committee met on 13th October. Two key issues occupied the main discussion: pay and the future of the USS pension scheme.
HEC voted formally to call a …
The FEC met on Friday and overwhelmingly (only one vote against) agreed to launch an industrial ballot over this year’s national pay claim. The meeting was upbeat. The results from the e-consultation were the most positive results for many years. …
The UCU Women’s standing committee met on Friday 22 September. Sue Abbott from Newcastle University was re elected as Chair.
Gender Pay gap.
The committee had strong concerns about the slow progress of tackling gender pay gaps. It was agreed …
This year’s TUC took place four months after General Election that the Tories almost lost. Jeremy Corbyn came within a whisker of beating Theresa May to …
The employers and USS are planning to destroy our pensions in the pre-92 university sector. Recent reports from the Financial Times (subscription only but see below*) and THES, based upon the USS Annual Reports and Accounts, rehash the …
At the beginning of the meeting, a minute’s silence was observed for the victims of the Grenfell fire and the Finsbury Park Mosque attack. The GS asked the NEC if they would agree to send a message of condolence …
Students and staff at West London College Ealing campus held a lunchtime protest on Friday against the threat to A level provision at the college.
Branch Secretary, Matthew Cookson, describes this as “not just about jobs, it’s about choices for …
