UCU Left calls on members to vote for candidates who are committed to fighting for Health and Safety, workers’ rights, equality, and protecting the planet.
In the coming UCU NEC elections it is important all members vote. Low polls comfort only …
HEC Report 26 February
Too 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 …
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 …
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 …
Stop deaths in custody – Justice for refugees
Public 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 …
Interim Congress Voting Advice
UCU 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 …
HEC Report 5th February and Congress voting
UCU 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 …
UCL’s Academic Board finds the IHRA definition not fit for purpose, urges the College Council to retract its adoption
- University 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
Pre-Congress UCU Left Meeting
Collectivise the resistance
For 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
Why we shouldn’t welcome the FE White Paper
The new Skills for Jobs White Paper put colleges at the centre of an underfunded, narrow, skills-based and business-led plan.
Last week, the secretary of state for education, Gavin Williamson, finally launched the government’s FE …
HE Industrial Action Survey: Strategy cannot be ‘fixed’ by surveys
Get 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 …