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The Marking and Assessment boycott has been on since 20th April, and has proved the power of members to halt the universities’ ability to award degrees. Members have shown a magnificent willingness to take and sustain the action in the …
Summary
The ongoing Marking & Assessment Boycott (MAB) has hit the employers, exposing splits and divisions amongst them. But to date has not yet broken through. This isn’t because the form of action – backed up by strikes in response to …
Around 150 branches in Further Education colleges are preparing to ballot over a new settlement for FE. UCU FE members are demanding an inflation + 2% pay rise, an England-wide binding bargaining and workload agreement.
The consultative ballot results, where …
Report on HEC meeting – 30 June 2023
By a single vote, UCU’s Higher Education Committee (HEC) on Friday voted to approach the employers to negotiate a possible ‘interim agreement’ to suspend the Marking and Assessment Boycott (MAB) ‘as soon …
London Region and Newcastle and LJMU UCU branches are inviting delegates and observers from HE branches across the UK to attend an ‘unofficial’ Branch Delegates Meeting (BDM) on the JNCHES pay and conditions (Four Fights) dispute.
This meeting will be …
The newly-constituted UCU National Executive Committee (NEC) met for the first time post Congress. The principal business of the first NEC meeting is usually fairly routine: to agree timetables for the year, and protocols in the absence of officers in …
Online meeting
6.30pm Tuesday 20 June
A meeting for UCU members, other trade unionists and Stop The War supporters
Register here: https://tdy.lol/lmOUC
Lindsey German – Stop the War Coalition
Tariq Ali – Author, activist and journalist
Sean Vernell – UCU …
Some 500 people demonstrated on Saturday against the assault on jobs at Brighton University. Despite having received more than 80 ‘volunteers’ for redundancy, the University is still insisting that 26 more must be forced out of their jobs. More than …
Click here to read the speech on the plenary “Civil Society Movement and Peace Voices against the War from Russia and Ukraine” by Dr. Yurii Sheliazhenko at the International Summit for …