Election candidates
| Post | Candidate & recommended voting order (click to see statement) |
|---|---|
| Honorary Treasurer | 1 Professor Paul Anderson |
| Midlands HE | 1 Rhiannon Lockley 2 Alan Barker |
| Midlands FE | 1 Dharminder Chuhan |
| North West HE | 1 Saira Weiner 2 Sunil Banga |
| South HE | 1 Mark Abel 2 Dr Deepa Govindarajan Driver 3 Richard Bradbury |
| South FE | 1 Philip Wilson |
| UK-elected HE | 1 Marion Hersh 2 Lesley McGorrigan 3 Maria Chondrogianni 4 Sunil Banga |
| UK-elected FE | 1 Margot Hill 2 Saleem Rashid |
| Representative of Disabled Members | 1 Marian Mayer |
| Representative of LGBT+ Members | 1 Bee Hughes |
| Representatives of Black Members | 1 Dr Deepa Govindarajan Driver 2 Juliana Ojinnaka |
Posts
- HEC Report 26 FebruaryToo slow, too timid and too obstructive HEC met on 26 February amid over a dozen universities making redundancies and victimising trade union activists. However, the resistance of members in branches means employers are not getting their own way. Branches are winning ballots and taking action. Striking members at UEL were supported by over 200 activists …
- The Fight for Trans Rights
Note on terminology: this article will use the term trans throughout as an umbrella term referring to a range of trans, nonbinary, genderqueer and gender non-conforming identities (as many trans-led organisations such as Gendered Intelligence do). We will use other terms alongside trans when we are discussing a specific identity within the trans* community. In 2020 … - How do we build a fighting union that can win?UCU’s interim Congress took place in the context of a public health crisis where our employers and government are playing fast and loose with our health and using the pandemic to cut costs through sacking staff, including UCU members. But these attacks have been greeted by our members with stiff resistance. At this moment of time …
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- Stop deaths in custody – Justice for refugeesPublic Meeting – Cyfarfod Cyhoeddus Thursday 4 March – 5.00pm – 6.30pm – Dydd Iau 4 Mawrth In early January Mohamud Hassan was arrested by South Wales police in Cardiff, and died the following day after being released with no charges. The family of Mohamud are asking why did he die and why did he have …
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- Interim Congress Voting AdviceUCU Left recommends that delegates to Congress vote as follows: Against motions 1, 24 and 30 remission of 9 and 16 In Favour all other motions and amendments all other motions even if unamended. For any non delegates who want to see the relevant motions, they are available on the UCU website here.
- HEC Report 5th February and Congress votingUCU leadership still dragging its heals on defending members The special HEC met on 5th February, to discuss the union’s response to the latest developments in the Covid crisis against a backdrop of the discussions that emerged at the NEC Briefing on Section 44 held on the 22nd January https://uculeft.org/report-on-nec-briefing-on-section-44-and-collective-action/. A number of motions and amendments …
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- UCL’s Academic Board finds the IHRA definition not fit for purpose, urges the College Council to retract its adoptionUniversity College London’s Academic Board to recommend to the Council of the College that it should set aside the IHRA definition of antisemitism, and replace it with a more appropriate alternative. Report finds the IHRA definition “not fit for purpose within a university setting and has no legal basis for enforcement.” Findings raise serious questions about the …
- Pre-Congress UCU Left MeetingCollectivise the resistanceFor a fighting democratic union Register here 7.00pm Thursday 11 February Chair: Bee Hughes UCU LJMU Speakers Daniele Kebede NEU Senior Vice President Didem Derya Ozedimir Kaya, Solidarity with Bogazici University staff and students Dharminder Chuhan UCU Sandwell College Mark Abel UCU Brighton on their dispute UVW Care Home Striker All branches in dispute …
- Why we shouldn’t welcome the FE White PaperThe new Skills for Jobs White Paper put colleges at the centre of an underfunded, narrow, skills-based and business-led plan. TES article by Sean Vernell Last week, the secretary of state for education, Gavin Williamson, finally launched the government’s FE White Paper. He said it would bring about a “revolution” in the sector. It will not, of course, do …
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- HE Industrial Action Survey: Strategy cannot be ‘fixed’ by surveysGet ready. UCU members in Higher Education are being surveyed again. But there is a real danger that the ‘Industrial Action Survey’ will be used, not as originally intended to build the current JNCHES trade dispute, but to reposition UCU’s overall industrial action strategy. The HE Sector Conference motion calling for the Survey was intended to …
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