Our Union, our Disputes, our Sector in Danger
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Solidarity is the way to rebuild
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Build the reballot
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We need to debate the action we need to win
Our Higher Education strikes this week are essential for the future of our …
Keep up the strikes!
Keep the Strikes on and keep them UK-wide.
We can’t afford more of this muddled leadership
At yesterday’s Higher Education Committee (HEC) meeting (15 September 2023), UCU General Secretary Jo Grady, and her supporters on the HEC, the Commons and IBL groupings, sought to put the knife into …
Pay, workload and levelling up the sector
90 colleges in 120 UCU branches across England are balloting for industrial action to secure an above inflation pay award, a workload agreement and a binding national framework agreement. This is the biggest ballot in FE for a decade and …
UCU Left statement – Our union in crisis: defend democracy and the strikes
Our union is in a crisis made by the General Secretary and her supporters.
The crisis is due to a combination of two factors: the sudden calling off of the MAB without support for branches, and the failure of the …
The MAB is ending, but the fight goes on
The results of the e-ballot over the continuation of the Marking and Assessment Boycott (MAB) will be a surprise to many. Although overall 60% of members voted to end the MAB early (on a 27% turnout), HEC members were told …
Vote Richard Wild – UCU NEC casual vacancy – HE London and the East
For a democratic campaigning union driving real change
I am Principal Lecturer in Criminology with over 30 years experience teaching at both pre- and post-92 universities. I am Branch Co-Chair at the University of Greenwich UCU and HE Secretary UCU …
KEEP the MAB ON
Under Continued Uncertainty (UCU) continues to respond to member demands for action with delays and inaction.
At the Special HEC, belatedly held on 14th August, motions for strike action in September under the current mandate and a reballot to …
HEC report 14 August 23 – Two steps forward, one step back
HEC agrees to call strike action before the end of the ballot period and launch reballot as soon as possible.
But HEC was also told that this reballot would take five weeks to prepare, which was a shock to those …
UCU Left Pre-BDM Open Meeting
An HEC has finally been called for Monday 14 August to be preceded by a Branch Delegate Meeting on Friday 11 August.
Please come to an open meeting of the UCU Left at 7pm on Tuesday 8 August to discuss
No retreat into a service union
A paradox in UCU’s leadership under General Secretary Jo Grady exists. Her leadership has been defined by the adoption of an ‘organising’ model championed by the writer and activist Jane McAlevey. Yet faced with intransigent employers the actual model being …