With the Principal of K college resigning over the dispute stemming from the proposal to cut 145 staff from the college, which has been described as “ill-conceived and unjustified”. Much like the strike at Barnfield, the strike at K College …
Report of UCU FE Committee, October 5 2012
Pay
UCU’s Further Education Committee (FEC) met on Friday 5th October in the aftermath of consultation across UCU branches on the employers’ 0.7% pay offer. A majority of branches voted to reject the offer but also against strike action over …
Report from UCU Higher Education Committee – 6th October 2012
1. Defend Christine Vie
UCU has launched a national petition in defence of Christine Vie. Christine is a former NEC member and local UCU officer at Manchester Metropolitan University. Christine was made redundant in July this year, following a restructuring …
Equality in education: a nice idea, but how we achieve it? [AEIP]
This is a report back from a workshop at the recent UCU Left conference, please discuss the article and the ideas from it in our “Another Education is Possible” Forum here.
These were the questions and themes that were …
UCU Left Report – Joint meeting of UCU members equality standing committees – 28th September 2012.
For some time members of the four Equality standing committees had felt that occasional joint meetings of committee members would prove to be fruitful.
The second joint meeting of committee members took place on Friday 28th September at Carlow St.…
UCU Left Report – LGBT Members Standing Committee, 28th September 2012
This was a shorter than normal meeting because all four of the union’s equality members standing committees were to meet together in the afternoon.
The main agenda items were to receive reports of on-going committee work and to finalise plans …
UCU Left Report – Women Members Standing Committee – 28th September 2012.
The UCU Women Members Standing Committee (WMSC) met on Friday to discuss the forthcoming UCU Women´s Conference on Friday 9th November. The theme of the Conference is raising women´s contribution and activity in UCU campaigns, getting women more involved and …
Recruitment, resistance and building the union
The General Secretary’s message to branch officers refers to a downturn in the union’s total membership during this year. This is a reversal of the five-year trend since UCU’s formation of gradually increasing membership. In the year to 29th August …
UCU Barnfield College in Luton will strike next Tuesday 2nd of October.
This is a really important dispute and your active support is very much needed.
You may remember that Barnfield College featured in a Times Higher article this spring following claims that the now CEO, Pete Birkett, plans to turn the …
London Met – March for Justice – Sept 28th, London.
A printable version of this poster is available to download here.
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