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 the right of UCU Congress delegates to represent members’ criticisms of the conduct …
Congress 2018 UCU Left Fringe Meeting
The return of the rank and file
7.30pm Wednesday 30 May
The Mechanics Centre
103 Princess Street
Manchester M1 6DD
The UCU is in transformation. We have seen a new rank and file emerge to defend pensions and jobs, and …
AoC refuses to discuss this year’s pay claim: #FEfightsback
The AoC have delivered an ultimatum to UCU: end the disputes over the 2017/18 pay claim or we will not enter negotiations over the 2018/19 claim.
This is a declaration of war.
UCU national officers are united in condemning this …
UCU Transformed day school: A great start!
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 debated how to continue the process of turning UCU into a democratic fighting union, building …
HEC: USS strikes have transformed our union, it’s not ‘business as usual’
Thousands of new members joined UCU throughout our transformative USS strikes. We have a new vibrant union. A meeting took place today of the Higher Education Committee where it was apparent from the outset that the union structures and current …
USS bosses try to undermine UCU agreement with employers – build the campaign and prepare to strike
The vote of UCU members in the recent e-ballot paused our industrial action campaign to facilitate the formation of the Joint Expert Panel (JEP) into the USS valuation. But the JEP is already facing resistance from USS itself. Even before …
GS emails on the USS ballot
There has been much comment on the UCU Activists List and elsewhere on the question of democracy within UCU and the role of the four emails sent by the general secretary during the USS ballot.
As these emails were sent …
The vote is YES: Unite to Defend USS
Members know they have to fight to defend their pensions. But despite the weakness of the UUK offer, the hope that the Independent Expert Panel might sort out the valuation and reduce the ‘deficit’ swayed most members …
UCU: A Unity Statement for Democracy
UCU: A Unity Statement for Democracy
Dear colleague
The UCU e-ballot over the UUK offer that closed on Friday (13 April), the nature of the offer and the manner in which members were balloted, all expose a deep democratic deficit
Let’s get ‘tough on the causes of crime’
The recent killings of young people on the streets of London is heart wrenching for the families and communities affected. It was two years ago that from my ninth-floor flat window in East London I watched a 17-year-old boy die …