The motions passed by the HE Special Conference on Friday have now been published. https://www.ucu.org.uk/hesc_Dec19
The mood of the conference was buoyant after eight days of …

Saturday’s Democracy Congress saw a mobilisation by the right-wing ‘Independent Broad Left’ (IBL) to block rule changes proposed by the UCU’s Democracy Commission intended to …

Labour has promised to end the historic funding inadequacies and place the sector at the centre of its radical proposals. What will be the future …

It is nearly 50 years since the Equal Pay Act 1970. Only a clearly defined career progression scheme will resolve the gender pay gap and other pay gaps. The pay gap has a lasting effect on current pay but also on past pay and future pension. Therefore clearly defined career progression should also be applied retrospectively as women, BAME, disabled and LGBT+ staff have been held back for far too long.

UCU Left has organised two meetings on the fringe of Friday’s Sector Conference and Saturday’s Special Congress:
 
Left Caucus prior to the Special HE Sector Conference
Friday …

UCU Congress in 2019 proposed running the ballots for pay inequalities and USS pension disputes together and combining our strike action for both disputes as a means to maximise the unity of our union.

Take back the university – Unite and Fight

UCU members have achieved something many thought impossible. We bust through the Tory anti-union threshold of 50% turnout in sixty universities. Activists have breathed new life into the campaign to defend USS, and broadened the fight to the post-92 universities, winning ballots on pay, equality, casualisation and workload.

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Fight for a future! • Support the university strikes!
Solidarity with School Student Climate Strike
Demonstrate: Friday 29 November 2019
Assemble: 11am Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY
March: 12 …

The strikes in the 60 universities which got over the 50 percent ballot threshold will undoubtedly win enthusiastic support. Those of us who didn’t quite …